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AI Data-Center Buildout Advances as Applied Digital’s First 100‑MW Facility Goes Live

AI data-center investment is translating into long-term leases.

Overview

  • The AI data center market is projected to grow at a 31.6% CAGR from $236.4 billion in 2025 to $933.8 billion in 2030.
  • Applied Digital’s Polaris Forge 1 campus has begun operations, with the first 100‑megawatt data center online as the initial building in a multistructure campus.
  • Polaris Forge 1 is slated to reach 400 megawatts by 2027 and is fully contracted to CoreWeave for roughly $11 billion in lease revenue over 15 years.
  • Applied Digital also signed a 15‑year lease for 200 megawatts at Polaris Forge 2 with a U.S. investment‑grade hyperscaler, taking contracted capacity across two North Dakota campuses to 600 megawatts and about $16 billion in prospective lease revenue under terms described as effectively non‑cancellable.
  • Astera Labs supplies high‑speed connectivity solutions that move data among GPUs, CPUs, memory, and networking gear inside modern AI data centers.