Applied Digital Polaris Forge 1 (Ellendale)
AI data center in Ellendale, North Dakota, operated by CoreWeave.
Applied Digital's purpose-built AI campus in Ellendale, North Dakota, leased to CoreWeave for 400 MW across three buildings.
Power: what each source says
400 MW leased to CoreWeave across three buildings (Applied Digital). Building 1 live 2025; second building delivered (Applied Digital release); building 3 due H1 2027. Epoch AI estimates 68 MW IT as of 2026-06-30.
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
CoreWeave
Campus facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave 1
- Owner / developer
- Applied Digital 1
- City
- Ellendale 1
- State / region
- North Dakota 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2025-10 1
- Chips
- NVIDIA Blackwell (Epoch AI) 1
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- Not published
- Power source
- grid 1
- Coordinates
- 46.00° N, 98.53° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Applied Digital delivers second building at Polaris Forge 1 accessed 2026-11-09
- Applied Digital announces 250 MW lease with CoreWeave accessed 2026-11-09
- Applied Digital finalizes additional 150 MW lease accessed 2026-11-09
- Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09