HPC Ellendale facility under construction
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
The company broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center in Ellendale, North Dakota
Source (primary)
Applied Digital 10-K filed 2024-08-30 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “The Company also broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center in project in Ellendale, ND”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The filing states the company broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center project in Ellendale, ND.
Confirmed in the source:
- The company broke ground on an HPC data center in Ellendale, North Dakota
- The HPC data center has 100 MW of capacity
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487924000216/apld-20240531.htm) in full (481,620 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital 10-K filed 2024-08-30
Quote: “The Company also broke ground on a 100 MW HPC data center in project in Ellendale, ND”