Sites / ND / Cass
Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2
Status: announced · Confidence: medium · Announced: 2025-08
Facts
| Location | Harwood, Cass, ND |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 280 MW |
| Investment | $3000000000 |
| First recorded | 2026-07-07 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-07 |
Signal notes
Operator is Applied Digital, which has no operators.yml entry — operator field omitted pending an "applied-digital" entry. Distinct campus from Polaris Forge 1 (Ellendale, Dickey County): PF2 is in Harwood, Cass County, near Fargo, so it is a separate record even under the same Polaris Forge program. announced_date given as "August 2025" — recorded as "2025-08" (month precision only, as sourced). capacity_mw 280 (AI computing center), investment_usd $3 billion. Single source (North Dakota Monitor), hence medium confidence.
Sources
- https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/08/18/company-announces-plan-for-data-center-north-of-fargo/ — North Dakota Monitor, 2025-08-18
Applied Digital announces planned data center north of Fargo.
Signals
Raw observations behind this record (4):
sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf2-announced,
sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf2-capacity,
sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf2-investment,
sig-20260706-applieddigital-pf2-status
Record file · dataset licensed CC BY 4.0 — see provenance.