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Applied Digital data center in Ellendale, North Dakota

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Jun 2025, in Dickey County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Ellendale, Dickey County, North Dakota.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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EllendaleDickey County
Reported capacity
400MW
Planned, as Compute Atlas (Jul 25, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it. 2 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Applied Digital
The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    Leola Data Center

    32.7 miles away

  • Builds in Dickey County

    1

    Published build in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in North Dakota

    12

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Applied Digital, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • Applied DigitalOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionCompute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026
Reported capacity
400 MWCompute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported building area
2 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Site area
320 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$5.3BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
350Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Jun 2025Compute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026
Construction start reported
Sep 8, 2022Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Expected completion
2027Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
Ellendale, Dickey County, North DakotaCompute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
Grid powerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Cooling
Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
AI workload
Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026
Facility type
AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
Grant; OtherKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the general contractor's name.

Who's involved

Operator
Applied DigitalCompute Atlas · Jul 25, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Tenants
CoreWeaveKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Utility
Montana-Dakota UtilitiesKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Server Country

    Construction start

  2. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  3. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  4. · Server Country

    Expected completion

  5. Date not reported · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

  6. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

  7. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Reported as completed

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

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In North Dakota

All North Dakota data center builds

The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 12 published builds in North Dakota, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.

Questions this page answers

Is Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Jul 25, 2026) reports it as under construction. The sources disagree: Server Country reports expanding.
Who is building Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1?
Applied Digital is the operator; the tenants reported are CoreWeave. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in 2027. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, 400 MW
  • Server Country: Expanding, 400 MW

Updates

  • Date not reported: Reported as completed. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • 2027: Expected completion. Server Country
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Jun 2025: Announced. Compute Atlas
  • Sep 8, 2022: Construction start. Server Country

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The general contractor's name.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/applied-digital-polaris-forge-1-nd-dc_3dc3b77c5d0f, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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