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Polaris Forge 2 data center capacity and lease

Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 2

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-02-08
Promised amount
200.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Polaris Forge 2 is a 200MW data center campus in Harwood, North Dakota with signed lease for 200MW to an investment-grade hyperscaler tenant and in early construction phases

Source (primary)

Applied Digital 8-K filed 2026-02-09 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “signing a lease for 200MW of its Harwood, North Dakota campus ("Polaris Forge 2"), which is in early construction phases, with an investment-grade hyperscaler tenant”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 16, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000149315226005788/form8-k.htm) in full (23,229 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Applied Digital 8-K filed 2026-02-09

Quote: “signing a lease for 200MW of its Harwood, North Dakota campus ("Polaris Forge 2"), which is in early construction phases, with an investment-grade hyperscaler tenant”

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