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Polaris Forge 2 groundbreaking and construction timeline

Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 2

Subject kind
facility timeline
Statement date
2026-07-28
Promised by
2027-06-30
Promised amount
200.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

On August 18, 2025, broke ground on Polaris Forge 2 with initial 200 MW data center; anticipate reaching initial capacity in 2H 2026 and full capacity in early 2027

Source (primary)

Applied Digital 10-K filed 2026-07-29 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “On August 18, 2025, we broke ground on our Polaris Forge 2 data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota, with an initial 200 MW data center. We currently anticipate reaching initial capacity in the second half of calendar year 2026 and full capacity in early calendar year 2027.”

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 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: “On August 18, 2025, we broke ground on our Polaris Forge 2 data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota, with an initial 200 MW data center. We currently anticipate reaching initial capacity in the second half of calendar year 2026 and full capacity in early calendar year 2027.”

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