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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Address and locality
- Boyce · Rapides County · Louisiana
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000083
What the source record says
Anchor tenant is an undisclosed investment-grade U.S. hyperscaler under a $7.5B, 15-year lease. Two initial facilities totaling 300 MW across 300 acres (of 672-acre secured site). Initial operations targeted mid-2027. Applied Digital HQ in Dallas, TX.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-10 · reported proposed
Applied Digital begins site development in Rapides Parish with location kept confidential; signed $7.5B, 15-year lease with undisclosed investment-grade U.S. hyperscaler for 300 MW.
- 2026-01 · reported under construction
Site development begins January 2026. Location publicly revealed as Boyce, Rapides Parish in May 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Central Louisiana secures $3.6B Applied Digital AI Factory Campus · Louisiana Economic Development
- Rapides Parish lands massive $3.6B AI data center project · Rapides Parish Journal
- Cleco plans 756-MW gas plant alongside Rapides data center · The Hayride
- Cleco looks to fast-track new generator for data center · KALB
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-delta-forge-1-la. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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