This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Address and locality
- Harwood · Cass County · North Dakota
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 280 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000086
What the source record says
Two purpose-built facilities totaling more than 1.8 million sq ft. As of the August 2025 announcement, Applied Digital was in advanced negotiations with a U.S.-based investment-grade hyperscaler; no customer or lease value publicly confirmed. Partial operations expected end of 2026; full capacity early 2027. Coordinates are Harwood city centroid; site is approximately 900 acres near this community north of Fargo.
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
- 2025-08 · reported proposed
Polaris Forge 2 announced; $3B, 280 MW AI factory campus on 900+ acres near Harwood
- 2025-09 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking September 2025; initial operations expected end of 2026, full capacity early 2027
Sources and attribution
- Applied Digital to Break Ground on $3 Billion Polaris Forge 2 Campus · Applied Digital Corporation
- Minnkota Power Cooperative: Data Center FAQs (Polaris Forge 2) · Minnkota Power Cooperative
- Data center developer looks west, backs power upgrades near Fargo · InForum
- Power project for AI data center gets North Dakota agency approval · Valley News Live
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-polaris-forge-2-harwood-nd. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
This exact source identifier is linked to Polaris Forge 2. The licensed row remains a separate discovery record.