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Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 (ELN01)

Status: operational · Confidence: medium

Facts

Signal notes

Operator is Applied Digital, which has no operators.yml entry — operator field omitted pending an "applied-digital" entry. CoreWeave (also lacking an operators.yml entry) is reported as taking all 400 MW at full buildout; it is a tenant, not the operator, so not recorded as operator. capacity_mw resolved to the 400 MW full-buildout figure for the Polaris Forge 1 campus; the first building, ELN01, is reported as a distinct 180 MW facility (one phase of the campus). Single source (DataCenterDynamics), hence medium confidence. Status: source reports the campus as "operational/under construction (first building completed)"; resolved to operational because ELN01's first building is completed, with remaining campus phases still under construction — the source is ambiguous between the two states. A "construction began Sept 2022" signal was reported explicitly as a construction-start date, not an announcement date; it is not filed into announced_date (no construction_start field exists) and is recorded here in notes instead to avoid inventing precision.

Sources

• https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/applied-digital-completes-first-data-center-building-at-north-dakota-campus/ — DataCenterDynamics, 2026-07-06
  First building (ELN01) completed at the Ellendale campus.

Signals

Raw observations behind this record (4): sig-20260706-applieddigital-eln01-capacity, sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf1-capacity, sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf1-construction-start, sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf1-status

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