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Delta Forge 2

Delta Forge 2 is a tracked AI data center campus in Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Applied Digital's fifth AI Factory campus (Delta Forge 2): 210 MW critical IT leased to an unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler under a 15-year take-or-pay structure. Company IR (Jun 8, 2026) locates the campus

Announced · Applied Digital · Brookwood, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Delta Forge 2 capacity claims
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Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

0 GW

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Applied Digital

Developer

United States

Location

Reported facts

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

Critical IT (contracted)
210 MW under a 15-year take-or-pay lease (Applied Digital IR, Jun 8 2026)
Tenant
Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler (company disclosure; not CoreWeave)
Location
Company IR: "new southern state." Local/trade press report Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (DCD; al.com)
Contracted revenue (base term)
Approximately $5.2B base-term contracted revenue ($12.7B if all renewal options exercised over a 30-year total term) (Applied Digital IR)
Initial operations (targeted)
Q1 2028 (Applied Digital IR)
Not Polaris Forge 2
Polaris Forge 2 is the separate Harwood, ND campus (applied-digital-harwood-north-dakota). Ellendale is Polaris Forge 1 (applied-digital-ellendale-north-dakota).

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In clusterTuscaloosa(4)·Alabama(36)

The deal

developer
Applied Digital
offtaker
Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler

Power

Power source
grid
Interconnection

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Tuscaloosa County, 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 2 is in Alabama, Tuscaloosa. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

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

Sources

9296361c-cc72-45d3-af78-92a1b47e790f · 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 2 vs Rockdale Data Center →Delta Forge 2 vs Jamestown HPC Campus →Delta Forge 2 vs Garden City Data Center →Delta Forge 2 vs Polaris Forge 2 →Delta Forge 2 vs Delta Forge 1 →

Common questions

What is Delta Forge 2?
Delta Forge 2 is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Brookwood. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Delta Forge 2?
Applied Digital is recorded as a party to Delta Forge 2 on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Delta Forge 2 operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Delta Forge 2 is announced but not yet built. 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 2?
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 2: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/applied-digital-delta-forge-2

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