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Phase 1 of second building placed into service at Polaris Forge 1

Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-08-22
Promised amount
75.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

On July 1, 2026, Phase 1 of the second building at Polaris Forge 1 was placed into service, adding 75 megawatts of operational capacity

Source (primary)

Applied Digital Continues Heavy Capital Spending: What's Ahead? - Eastern Progress (-, news_article)
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Quote: “On July 1, 2026, Applied Digital placed Phase 1 of the second building at Polaris Forge 1 into service, adding 75 megawatts of operational capacity and taking the campus to 175 megawatts of live capacity.”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

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What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.easternprogress.com/applied-digital-continues-heavy-capital-spending-whats-ahead/article_70aab17f-f5d4-5a86-99fa-378907193304.html) in full (9,732 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Applied Digital Continues Heavy Capital Spending: What's Ahead? - Eastern Progress

Quote: “On July 1, 2026, Applied Digital placed Phase 1 of the second building at Polaris Forge 1 into service, adding 75 megawatts of operational capacity and taking the campus to 175 megawatts of live capacity.”

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