Power Usage Effectiveness specification
Company: Applied Digital
The claim, verbatim
Polaris Forge facilities achieve projected Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.18 with near-zero water consumption using closed-loop, waterless, direct-to-chip cooling
Source (primary)
View PDF (IR page (ir.applieddigital.com), ir_release)
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Quote: “achieving a projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18 with near-zero water consumption”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The proxy attributes the 1.18 projected PUE and the cooling design to 'our innovative designs'. It does not explicitly tie that figure to the Polaris Forge facilities, although the preceding sentence mentions the Polaris Forge campuses.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's designs feature closed-loop, waterless, direct-to-chip cooling systems
- These designs achieve a projected Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.18 with near-zero water consumption
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- That the 1.18 projected PUE figure applies specifically to the Polaris Forge facilities, rather than to the company's data center designs generally
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (ir.applieddigital.com) (https://ir.applieddigital.com/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0001493152-25-014495/0001493152-25-014495.pdf) in full (206,490 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
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Quote: “achieving a projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18 with near-zero water consumption”