Center Registry · North Dakota

Polaris Forge 2

Applied Digital · Harwood, Cass County, North Dakota

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200 MW
Critical IT planned
0 MW
Energized today
2026-H2
First power
MISO
Grid region · location approximate
In brief

What makes it notable.

  1. A 1 GW planned gross campus in Harwood, North Dakota, served by Cass County Electric Cooperative with Minnkota Power Cooperative as wholesale supplier on the MISO grid.
  2. Ground broke in September 2025, with first power targeted for the second half of 2026 and full buildout in 2027. Planned critical capacity is 200 MW.
  3. Applied Digital develops the campus with proprietary closed-loop liquid cooling, near-zero water use and a projected PUE of 1.18, against 200 MW of planned critical capacity.
Deal anatomy

Six layers, and who holds each.

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Power
Cass County Electric Cooperative, Minnkota Power Cooperative
Site and build
Applied Digital
Compute
Tenant-supplied GPU/accelerators
Cloud operator
Tenant-operated
Anchor tenant
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Capital
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Timeline

From here to full build.

  1. Nov 2026Today
  2. 2026-H2First power
  3. 2027Full buildout
The detail

Each party's role.

Power

Cass County Electric Cooperative. Local distribution cooperative delivering power to the campus

Power

Minnkota Power Cooperative. Wholesale generation and transmission supplier on the MISO grid

Site and build

Applied Digital. Owner-developer; proprietary closed-loop liquid cooling, near-zero water, projected PUE 1.18

Compute

Tenant-supplied GPU/accelerators. Developer-landlord shell; the hyperscaler tenant provisions its own compute, not disclosed by Applied Digital inferred

Cloud operator

Tenant-operated. The hyperscaler tenant runs its own orchestration/software stack on the leased campus inferred

Related sites

Nearby in the buildout.

LivePolaris Forge 1Applied Digital · ND · 400 MW PlannedPolaris Forge 3Applied Digital · ND · 300 MW Under constructionDelta Forge 1Applied Digital · LA · 300 MW Under constructionCrusoe Warrenton CampusCrusoe · MO · 600 MW
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