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Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus
Boyce, Rapides County, Louisiana · All 7 Applied Digital sites
Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus is a data center under construction in Boyce, Louisiana (Rapides County), operated by Applied Digital Corporation. The public record puts it at announced May 2026, 300 MW planned, 300 acres, a reported $3.6 billion investment.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Boyce, Rapides County, LA
- Coordinates
- 31.4000, -92.6500
- Power capacity
- 300 MW planned
- Land
- 300 acres
- Investment
- $3.6 billion
- Announced
- May 2026
- Utility
- Cleco
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent; 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Louisiana Act 730 Sales and Use Tax Exemption on data center equipment, Louisiana, 2026
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- January 2026Under constructionSite development begins January 2026. Location publicly revealed as Boyce, Rapides Parish in May 2026. Source: Louisiana Economic Development
- October 2025ProposedApplied Digital begins site development in Rapides Parish with location kept confidential; signed $7.5B, 15-year lease with undisclosed investment-grade U.S. hyperscaler for 300 MW. Source: Louisiana Economic Development
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 3, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus in Boyce, Rapides County, Louisiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Cleco pays full cost of power infrastructure needed to serve campus (called 'largest economic development opportunity in Cleco's 90-plus year history'). Campus located on 300 acres of a 672-acre secured site.
Applied Digital proprietary closed-loop cooling technology for high-density AI workloads.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana Act 730 Sales and Use Tax Exemption on data center equipment | Not established | Louisiana | 2026 |
Notes on the record
Anchor tenant is an undisclosed investment-grade U.S. hyperscaler under a $7.5B, 15-year lease. Two initial facilities totaling 300 MW across 300 acres (of 672-acre secured site). Initial operations targeted mid-2027. Applied Digital HQ in Dallas, TX.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
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- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus in Boyce?
Nothing on record as of September 3, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus in Boyce, Rapides County, Louisiana appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus?
No lawsuit over Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus appears in the record we track as of September 3, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus, and how big is it?
Applied Digital Corporation is the operator on record. We hold 7 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 300 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus," updated September 3, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/applied-digital-delta-forge-1-la.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/applied-digital-delta-forge-1-la, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Central Louisiana secures $3.6B Applied Digital AI Factory Campus · Louisiana Economic Development · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Rapides Parish lands massive $3.6B AI data center project · Rapides Parish Journal · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus · Louisiana Economic Development · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 4.Cleco plans 756-MW gas plant alongside Rapides data center · The Hayride · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 5.Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus · Louisiana Economic Development · retrieved September 3, 2026
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