Polaris Forge 2 groundbreaking
Company: Applied Digital - Project: Polaris Forge 2
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event · happened August 18, 2025
The claim reports a groundbreaking that had already happened on August 18, 2025, when the statement was made in July 2026.
“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.”
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
Applied Digital broke ground on Polaris Forge 2 data center campus near Harwood, North Dakota on August 18, 2025, with an initial 200 MW data center.
Source (primary)
Applied Digital 10-K filed 2026-07-29 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-08-30)Live source ↗
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.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 10-K states each element of this claim directly.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital broke ground on the Polaris Forge 2 campus on August 18, 2025
- Polaris Forge 2 is located near Harwood, North Dakota
- Polaris Forge 2 began with an initial 200 MW data center
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.”