100 MW HPC facility under construction in Ellendale, North Dakota
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
The claim, verbatim
The company is constructing a state-of-the-art, 369,000+ square-foot 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota, specifically designed for high-performance computing applications including artificial intelligence.
Source (primary)
Earnings Release (IR page (ir.applieddigital.com), earnings_call)
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Quote: “We are finalizing a lease agreement with a U.S.-based hyperscaler for our 100 MW facility currently under construction. This state-of-the-art, 369,000+ square-foot facility is specifically designed for HPC applications, including artificial intelligence.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release describes the Ellendale 100 MW facility as under construction, 369,000+ square feet, state-of-the-art, and designed for HPC applications including AI.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital is constructing a 100 MW HPC facility in Ellendale, North Dakota
- The facility is 369,000+ square feet
- The facility is described as state-of-the-art
- The facility is specifically designed for HPC applications, including artificial intelligence
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (ir.applieddigital.com) (https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/109/applied-digital-reports-fiscal-first-quarter-2025-results/) in full (29,046 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Earnings Release
Quote: “We are finalizing a lease agreement with a U.S.-based hyperscaler for our 100 MW facility currently under construction. This state-of-the-art, 369,000+ square-foot facility is specifically designed for HPC applications, including artificial intelligence.”