{"id":"9296361c-cc72-45d3-af78-92a1b47e790f","slug":"applied-digital-delta-forge-2","name":"Delta Forge 2","aliases":["Delta Forge 2","APLD Delta Forge 2","Applied Digital Delta Forge 2","Delta Forge 2 Brookwood","Delta Forge 2 Alabama"],"locationId":"ae80803f-b11f-4a54-86fe-d579cc2ad8dc","lat":null,"lng":null,"locationPrecision":null,"landStatus":null,"lifecycleState":"announced","powerSourceMix":"grid","interconnectionQueueStatus":null,"interconnectionQueueId":null,"expectedEnergizationDate":null,"dedicatedSubstation":null,"gridOperator":null,"waterSourceNotes":null,"servingUtility":null,"acreage":null,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":null,"notes":"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 only as a \"new southern state\" with initial operations targeted for Q1 2028. Local and trade press (DCD, al.com, WBRC, Sep 2026) report the site near Brookwood in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (~1,300-acre site; ~$3.2B investment claimed in secondary coverage). This row was previously mislabeled as an Ellendale, ND / CoreWeave building; that Ellendale content belongs to Polaris Forge 1. Polaris Forge 2 is already tracked at Harwood, ND.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Critical IT (contracted)","value":"210 MW under a 15-year take-or-pay lease ([Applied Digital IR, Jun 8 2026](https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2))","sourceUrl":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2"},{"label":"Tenant","value":"Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler (company disclosure; not CoreWeave)","sourceUrl":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2"},{"label":"Location","value":"Company IR: \"new southern state.\" Local/trade press report Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama ([DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/applied-digital-reveals-32bn-delta-forge-2-ai-data-center-will-be-built-in-alabama/); [al.com](https://www.al.com/business/2026/09/data-center-company-confirms-32-billion-hyperscale-ai-factory-for-alabama.html))","sourceUrl":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2"},{"label":"Contracted revenue (base term)","value":"Approximately $5.2B base-term contracted revenue ($12.7B if all renewal options exercised over a 30-year total term) ([Applied Digital IR](https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2))","sourceUrl":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2"},{"label":"Initial operations (targeted)","value":"Q1 2028 ([Applied Digital IR](https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2))","sourceUrl":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2"},{"label":"Not Polaris Forge 2","value":"Polaris Forge 2 is the separate Harwood, ND campus ([applied-digital-harwood-north-dakota](/datacenters/applied-digital-harwood-north-dakota)). Ellendale is Polaris Forge 1 ([applied-digital-ellendale-north-dakota](/datacenters/applied-digital-ellendale-north-dakota))."}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://ir.applieddigital.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/154/applied-digital-signs-210-mw-lease-at-delta-forge-2","date":"2026-06-08","title":"Applied Digital Signs 210 MW Lease at Delta Forge 2","publisher":"Applied Digital (IR)"},{"url":"https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/applied-digital-reveals-32bn-delta-forge-2-ai-data-center-will-be-built-in-alabama/","title":"Applied Digital reveals $3.2bn Delta Forge 2 AI data center will be built in Alabama","sourceName":"Data Center Dynamics"},{"url":"https://www.al.com/business/2026/09/data-center-company-confirms-32-billion-hyperscale-ai-factory-for-alabama.html","title":"Applied Digital confirms $3.2B hyperscale AI factory for Brookwood","sourceName":"al.com"}],"reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-28T02:09:31.083Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-28T03:07:48.004Z","location":{"id":"ae80803f-b11f-4a54-86fe-d579cc2ad8dc","name":"Brookwood","slug":"brookwood-alabama","kind":"city","parentLocationId":"a9a93000-c700-46aa-b2ef-72f6a274ef94","region":"Alabama","lat":33.2556719,"lng":-87.3208336,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","aliases":[],"collisionRisk":"high","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-19T04:41:48.064Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-21T18:00:34.113Z"},"parties":[{"id":"ebe62361-436f-46c1-8dbd-a01866ba6be8","dataCenterId":"9296361c-cc72-45d3-af78-92a1b47e790f","companyId":"67278635-e1c4-464f-8e6c-8efedbee2c2c","externalName":null,"role":"developer","structureNotes":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-28T02:09:31.675Z","company":{"id":"67278635-e1c4-464f-8e6c-8efedbee2c2c","name":"Applied Digital","slug":"applied-digital"}},{"id":"e7edcfd6-b61c-44c1-8e1f-a13d9023d438","dataCenterId":"9296361c-cc72-45d3-af78-92a1b47e790f","companyId":null,"externalName":"Unnamed U.S. high investment-grade hyperscaler","role":"offtaker","structureNotes":null,"createdAt":"2026-09-28T03:07:49.535Z","company":null}],"capacityClaims":[],"financialClaims":[],"metricClaims":[],"powerProjects":[],"facilities":[],"incidents":[],"events":[],"capacity_picture":{"announced_gw":null,"contracted_gw":null,"under_construction_gw":null,"energized_gw":null,"announced_minus_energized_gw":null,"by_series":{"announced":null,"contracted":null,"under_construction":null,"energized":null}},"jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Place","name":"Delta Forge 2","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/applied-digital-delta-forge-2","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Brookwood"}}}