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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Address and locality
- Ellendale · Dickey County · North Dakota
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 100 MW; Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000085
What the source record says
Campus is 400 MW fully contracted to CoreWeave under ~15-year lease agreements valued at ~$11B total revenue. Three buildings: Building 1 (100 MW) complete Dec 2025; Building 2 (150 MW) expected mid-2026; Building 3 (150 MW) expected 2027. Coordinates are Ellendale city centroid; exact site is northeast of the city. Local jobs are reported only as projections — 'as many as 85 new jobs' (Dec 2024) and up to ~110 total local workforce at full expansion — not confirmed headcounts. No confirmed total campus capital-expenditure figure is public (the ~$11B CoreWeave figure is 15-year lease revenue, not capex); North Dakota's data-center sales-tax exemption applies but individual award amounts are statutorily confidential. investmentUsd reflects Applied Digital's own infrastructure spend (~$1.3B committed + ~$4B anticipated); the company's '$20B total campus' figure additionally counts ~$15B of customer/tenant capital.
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
- 2023 · reported under construction
AI factory construction begins in Ellendale
- 2025-10 · reported operational
Building 1 Phase 1 (50 MW) achieves Ready for Service for CoreWeave
- 2025-12 · reported under construction
Building 1 fully operational at 100 MW; Buildings 2 (150 MW) and 3 (150 MW) under construction for CoreWeave
Sources and attribution
- Applied Digital Announces 250MW AI Data Center Lease With CoreWeave in North Dakota · Applied Digital Corporation
- Applied Digital completes first data center building at North Dakota campus · Data Center Dynamics
- A shot in the arm for Ellendale · Northern Sentry
- InForum — "Applied Digital plans to expand in Ellendale, ND"
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-polaris-forge-1-ellendale-nd. 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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