04BBuildout · frontier site· cluster ledger reviewed 2026-10-14

Polaris Forge 1 AI datacenter

CoreWeave · Applied Digital · Ellendale, North Dakota. The ledger records it as operating, with 250 MW energized of 400 MW planned. Every figure below traces to a dated public source.

Ledger figures

Operator
CoreWeave · Applied Digital
Location
Ellendale, North Dakota
Status
Operating
Current power
250 MW
Planned power
400 MW
Accelerators
CoreWeave GPU cloud capacity (NVIDIA, models undisclosed)
Announced
No public date
First power
2025-10

Applied Digital campus fully leased to CoreWeave across three buildings (~$11B contracted revenue); Buildings 1–2 (250 MW) live by Oct 2026, third 150 MW building under construction.

Power figures are IT load where trackers publish it and campus power where only the operator’s headline exists; each source below names its basis. A figure marked est rests on at least one source other than the operator’s own announcement.

Sources behind each figure

  • Current power 250 MW fully operational critical IT load (Buildings 1–2) — Applied Digital,
  • Planned power 400 MW critical IT load contracted at full buildout — Applied Digital,
  • Accelerators · est Leased to CoreWeave; GPU models not disclosed — Applied Digital,
  • First power Phase I (first 50 MW) ready for service Oct 2025; Building 1 fully energized Nov 24, 2025 — Applied Digital,
← Every tracked site, capex and NVIDIA revenue

Background reading: Applied Digital on AI Wiki. AI Wiki is run by the same team as AI Compute Tracker.