Polaris Forge 1 first facility operational
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 1
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event · happened October 31, 2025
Said in July 2026, the claim reports that the first ~100 MW facility had already become operational in October 2025. Later releases repeat this.
“Our first HPC data center at the campus, with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.”
2026-07-29 · View 10-K View cached copy (2026-09-01)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗
Checked October 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
First HPC data center at Polaris Forge 1 with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load became operational in October 2025
Source (primary)
Applied Digital 10-K filed 2026-07-29 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-08-30)Live source ↗
Quote: “Our first HPC data center at the campus, with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 10-K's business section states that the first HPC data center at Polaris Forge 1, with about 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's first HPC data center at Polaris Forge 1 has approximately 100 MW of critical IT load
- That data center became operational in October 2025
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000114487926000048/apld-20260531.htm) in full (594,188 characters, retrieved August 30, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital 10-K filed 2026-07-29
Quote: “Our first HPC data center at the campus, with approximately 100 MW of critical IT load, became operational in October 2025.”