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Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish)

Delta Forge 1 is an AI data center campus developed by Applied Digital in Louisiana, Rapides Parish. 0.30 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Applied Digital · Private land · other · Boyce, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.30 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

72nd-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses34th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 243,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) capacity claims
Source
Announced0.30 GW2026-05-26reportedgovernment
Contracted0.30 GW2026-04-23reportedsec filing

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0.30 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Applied Digital

Developer

United States

Location

other

Grid

private land

Land

0.30 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Operator / developer
Applied Digital (designs, builds, operates) (Applied Digital IR; SEC Form 8-K)
Location
Boyce / Rapides Parish, Louisiana (company materials also reference Alexandria); first Applied Digital Louisiana campus (Louisiana Economic Development; SEC Form 8-K)
Lifecycle / timeline
Under construction; groundbreaking announced Jan 22, 2026; initial operations targeted mid-2027; further scale contemplated in 2028 and beyond (Applied Digital IR; Louisiana Economic Development)
Announced utility power / critical IT
Initial 430 MW total utility power enabling up to 300 MW critical IT across two 150 MW facilities (Applied Digital IR)
Contracted critical IT (hyperscaler lease)
300 MW critical IT under a ~15-year lease with an unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler; company cites ~$7.5B contracted lease value (SEC Form 8-K)
Tenant
Unnamed U.S. based high investment-grade hyperscaler (company does not name the counterparty) (SEC Form 8-K)
Site size
More than 500 acres per Applied Digital IR/8-K; Louisiana Economic Development describes the initial two facilities across approximately 300 acres (Applied Digital IR; Louisiana Economic Development)
Serving utility
Cleco (Louisiana Economic Development)
Cooling
Applied Digital proprietary waterless / closed-loop cooling for high-density AI (Applied Digital IR; Louisiana Economic Development)
Stated investment (LED)
$3.6 billion project framing by Louisiana Economic Development (Louisiana Economic Development)
Jobs (LED framing)
200 full-time on-site jobs (salaries described at 150% of state average); 1,000+ peak construction; LED estimates 218 indirect jobs (418 total regional) (Louisiana Economic Development)
State incentive
Qualified for Louisiana sales and use tax exemption on qualifying data center equipment under Act 730 of the 2024 Regular Legislative Session (Louisiana Economic Development)
Related campus
Distinct from Delta Forge 2 (Ellendale, ND / Polaris Forge portfolio); IR says the Delta Forge blueprint is refined from Polaris Forge campuses in North Dakota (Applied Digital IR)

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The story of Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish)
Announced capex
$3.6B
Jobs
200 permanent reported
Cooling
closed-loop / waterless (company proprietary)
Grid
other · live in ~10 months
Tenant
Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler
Derived
Cost per MW
$12M/MW
Cost per job
$18M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterRapides Parish(3)·Louisiana(26)

The deal

developer
Applied Digital · Designs, builds, and operates the Delta Forge 1 AI Factory campus.
utility
Cleco · Named power supplier in the Louisiana Economic Development announcement.
tenant
Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler · April 23, 2026 lease for 300 MW critical IT (~$7.5B / ~15-year term). Company does not name the counterparty.

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
other
Interconnection
Water
Applied Digital describes proprietary waterless / closed-loop cooling for high-density AI halls ([Applied Digital IR](https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/144/applied-digital-breaks-ground-on-delta-forge-1-a-430-mw-ai); [Louisiana Economic Development](https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/central-louisiana-secures-3-6-billion-applied-digital-ai-factory-campus)).

County water status: Moderate drought (D1) in Rapides Parish, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Delta Forge 1 sits on private land in Louisiana, Rapides Parish. It connects to the other grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

LED-framed campus investment
$3.6B. Louisiana Economic Development framing of a $3.6B Applied Digital AI factory campus investment. government
Hyperscaler lease at Delta Forge 1 (300 MW critical IT)
$7.5B. Company: approximately $7.5B total contracted value over an estimated 15-year base term covering 300 MW critical IT; tenant unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler. sec filing

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
$3.6B source
Cooling
closed-loop / waterless (company proprietary) source
Construction jobs
1,000 source
Permanent jobs
200 source

Timeline

  2. Sep 2026
    party added
    tenant: Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

8ad2dfad-c906-4d69-bfb9-b9d78a8671c3 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Delta Forge 1 vs Delta Forge 2 →Delta Forge 1 vs Rockdale Data Center →Delta Forge 1 vs Jamestown HPC Campus →Delta Forge 1 vs Garden City Data Center →Delta Forge 1 vs Polaris Forge 2 →

Common questions

What is Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish)?
Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Boyce. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) use?
Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) has 0.30 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish)?
Applied Digital is recorded as a party to Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Delta Forge 1 (Boyce / Rapides Parish): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/applied-digital-delta-forge-1-boyce-louisiana

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