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# Applied Digital Ellendale Possible Phase 3

Facility record `fac-epoch-gc-applied-digital-ellendale-possible-phase-3` — data source: Epoch AI — GPU clusters (https://web.archive.org/web/20240622003111/https://marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/applied-digital-and-nvidia-are-solving-ai-applications-efficiency-crisis-with-next-gen-data-centers/); authority tier 2; contains estimated values (is_estimated: true)

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | AI Training |
| Status | Announced |
| Location | Ellendale, US |
| Power capacity | 400 MW |
| Power is operating capacity | no (announced) |
| IT load | not published |
| GPU count | 180,000 |
| Peak PFLOPS (FP16) | 450,000 |
| Site owner | The site owner is unrecorded. |
| Site operator | No organisation is recorded as operating this site. |
| AI hardware owner | Applied Digital |
| Announced | not published |
| Operational | not published |

## Present inventory

Facility figure withheld: Facility status is announced, not operational.

| Partition | Count | Status | Verdict | Rate | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NVIDIA GB200 | 180,000 (estimated) | status not stated (from the facility status) | held | held: Not present capacity | catalogue row |

One partition is held, so no facility figure is derived; the held partition’s count and source remain visible and nothing is substituted for its rate. Rates are the cited dense FP16 figure per accelerator; the sum applies the methodology’s utilization and interconnect assumptions and is a theoretical aggregate, not one job’s throughput. The catalogue figures above are the record’s scalar fields (the source’s transcription, or its recorded correction) and are a different basis.

## Role evidence

Each role is stated only as the relationship its own source establishes.

- **AI hardware owner: Applied Digital.** Epoch AI's field for who owns the AI hardware, which it defines as not necessarily the owner or operator of the facility. [Source](<https://epoch.ai/data/gpu-clusters-documentation/records>)

## Data-quality flags

- The accelerator count is an estimate derived from power capacity, not a hardware inventory. The displayed chip count, 180,000 GPUs, is inferred from the source's power figure of 400 MW: Epoch AI's GPU Clusters dataset marks the count as roughly estimated from power, so it is neither an operator disclosure nor an export-control authorization, and a power-derived count is not an installed inventory. No primary source supplies the facility's own count, so the recorded figure stands as the source gives it and this flag marks it as an estimate. The group of records was identified on 19 May 2026 and flagged on 14 July 2026.

## Cite

> Scrutica, "Applied Digital Ellendale Possible Phase 3" (facility record), https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-gc-applied-digital-ellendale-possible-phase-3; data source: Epoch AI — GPU clusters; accessed 2026-10-13.

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