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Polaris Campus (Ellendale)

Polaris Campus is a tracked AI data center campus in North Dakota, Ellendale. Anchor HPC campus; 15-year CoreWeave lease covers initial building(s). Successor buildings on same campus expanding.

Partially energized · Applied Digital · Ellendale, North Dakota, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
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Contracted
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Under construction
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Energized
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Polaris Campus (Ellendale) capacity claims
Source

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Applied Digital

Developer

United States

Location

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

IT capacity
400 MW (Company disclosure: 400 MW critical IT design; first ~100 MW building energizing 2025-2026)
Named tenants
CoreWeave

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In clusterNorth Dakota(26)

The deal

developer
Applied Digital

Power

Power source
grid
Interconnection

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Dickey County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Polaris Campus is in North Dakota, Ellendale. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Sources

7625f80a-8ed4-4b19-8f6a-9027bd846591 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Polaris Campus vs Jamestown HPC Campus →Polaris Campus vs Polaris Forge 2 →Polaris Campus vs Delta Forge 2 →Polaris Campus vs Polaris Forge 1 →Polaris Campus vs Rockdale Data Center →

Common questions

What is Polaris Campus (Ellendale)?
Polaris Campus (Ellendale) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Ellendale. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Polaris Campus (Ellendale)?
Applied Digital is recorded as a party to Polaris Campus (Ellendale) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Polaris Campus (Ellendale) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Polaris Campus (Ellendale) is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Polaris Campus (Ellendale)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Polaris Campus (Ellendale): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/applied-digital-polaris-campus

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