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Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2

Applied Digital · Harwood · near Harwood, Cass County, ND. Every figure below is individually sourced and dated.

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Part of the tracked campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood).

The story of Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood)
Announced capex
$3B
Jobs
200 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per MW
$11M/MW
Cost per job
$15M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterNorth Dakota(26)

The deal

Inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood).

offtaker
Undisclosed U.S. investment-grade hyperscaler · 200 MW leased; ROFR on 800 MW
utility
Minnkota Power Cooperative (MISO)
financier
Macquarie Asset Management · Perpetual-preferred financing draws
developer
Applied Digital · NASDAQ: APLD
utility
Cass County Electric Cooperative · Co-serving power to the campus alongside Minnkota Power Cooperative.

Financial structure

Inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood).

Polaris Forge 2 total project investment
$3B. Announced total investment for the 280 MW Harwood AI campus. press release

Investment, workforce and specs

Inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood).

Permanent jobs
More than 200 full-time employees plus long-term contractors source

Power

Inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood). Live grid demand and drought overlay only render on the campus page.

Power source
grid
Grid operator
MISO
Interconnection
Water
Applied Digital proprietary closed-loop / waterless cooling design.

Harwood substation and high-voltage line (Minnkota Power), 0.28 GW grid interconnect, Under construction. ~$75M in upgrades funded by APLD, owned/operated by Minnkota Power Cooperative

Facility record

under construction

Status

crypto hpc

Type

Applied Digital

Operator

Harwood

Location

200 MW

Critical IT

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Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q3 2025 · not yet energized

2018-09-05Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-09-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-08-30Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-07-25Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-05-04Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones inherited from campus Polaris Forge 2 (Harwood). How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Evidence

Each fact traces to a source. This is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

  • capex usd: 3000000000 (reported) · source
  • critical it mw: 200 (reported) · source
  • record: Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2 (reported) · source
  • streetAddress: near Harwood, Cass County, ND (reported) · source · greenfield; road-level

Timeline

  1. Aug 2026
    First recorded
    Added to the DEPLOY registry as a sourced facility record
  2. Sep 2026
    Current: under construction

Facility-tier record. For campus-scale announced-vs-energized tracking see the data center index. DEPLOY is neutral infrastructure: what is claimed, what is verified, and when.

Common questions

What is Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2?
Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2 is a data center facility record on the DEPLOY registry, in Harwood. Every fact on the record is individually sourced and dated.
Who operates Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2?
Applied Digital operates Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2, per the sourced record on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2 operating?
Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2 is recorded as under construction on the DEPLOY registry, with 200 MW of critical IT capacity. Each figure traces to a source.
How verified is the data on Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every rendered fact shows its source: this is what a verified record looks like next to an unsourced directory listing.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Applied Digital Polaris Forge 2: data center facility record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/facilities/applied-digital-polaris-forge-2-harwood

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