Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish)

Also known as Applied Digital Delta Forge 1; Project Lightning

Operated by Applied Digital at Delta Forge Site (Rapides Parish) .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- Applied Digital builds and leases the 430 MW Delta Forge 1 campus, 300 MW critical IT, to an unnamed investment-grade hyperscaler	Applied Digital APLDNasdaq	-	Reported	ir.applieddigital.com

AI datacenter metrics

Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.

Metric	Value	As of	Basis	Note	Source
Facility power	430 MW	2026-10	Operator stated	430 MW campus utility power as described in the press release.	ir.applieddigital.com louisianaaihub.com
IT power	300 MW	2026-10	Operator stated	300 MW of critical IT load leased under two 15-year agreements.	ir.applieddigital.com louisianaaihub.com

How it is powered

Source	Provider	MW	Status	As of	Basis	Note	Source link
Grid	Cleco Power	430	planned	2026-07	Regulatory filing	Cleco large-load application, LPSC Docket U-38035, pending; Cleco discloses about 430 MW of additional load. Campus is 300 MW IT. Source is a third-party filings digest.	louisianaaihub.com

How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.

The read

Applied Digital's third AI factory campus, a 430 MW campus on more than 500 acres in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. On 23 April 2026 Applied Digital announced two 15-year leases with an unnamed US investment-grade hyperscaler covering 300 MW of critical IT load, worth about 7.5 billion dollars with three five-year renewal options, designed for both training and inference at high density; initial operations are expected in mid-2027. The press release does not name the parish, which comes from the Louisiana AI Hub project profile (which also records a docket pending before the Louisiana Public Service Commission and a 3.6 billion dollar capital cost). Because the tenant is not named, Applied Digital is recorded as operator. No accelerator count is stated. The tier is reported. It has never submitted an HPL result.

Timeline

2026-04-23 Announced source

Site & facility

Delta Forge Site (Rapides Parish)

Location: Rapides Parish, LA, USA

ir.applieddigital.com louisianaaihub.com

Change history

2026-10-04 Added Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish) (Applied Digital)

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
ir.applieddigital.com	names system only	-
louisianaaihub.com	names system only	-

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.