Applied Digital: Delta Forge 2

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Applied Digital: Delta Forge 2

Year Planned: 2028

Utility Provider: Alabama Power

Ownership: Applied Digital owned by apld bhm-01 llc, an applied digital affiliate. the building.

Lot Size: 1,293 acres

Site History

June 8, 2026: Applied Digital announces a 15-year lease with a U.S. investment-grade hyperscaler for Delta Forge 2, in an undisclosed southern state.
June-July 2026: Applied Digital affiliate APLD BHM-01 LLC acquires roughly 1,300 acres along Brookwood Parkway and George Newell Road.
July 20, 2026: The Alabama Department of Environmental Management approves the construction stormwater permit for "Brookwood, AL Industrial," covering about 137 acres of land disturbance.
September 24, 2026: Applied Digital confirms Brookwood as the Delta Forge 2 site. The Tuscaloosa County Economic Development Authority approves a 20-year tax abatement and $270 million in community benefit payments.
October 1, 2026: Construction is scheduled to begin.

Project Profile

Developer: Applied Digital
Tenant: Kayvens LLC, reported as a Meta affiliate
Land: ~1,300 acres; the first campus uses about 160 acres
Building: ~1.26 million sq ft at full build-out
Investment: more than $3.2 billion by Applied Digital and its tenant
Cooling: closed-loop, waterless design
Backup power: generators enclosed inside the facility, per county approval conditions
Jobs: 1,000+ construction workers at peak; 100+ permanent roles
Timeline: initial operations Q1 2028; completion by end of 2028

Utility

Alabama Power serves the site, within the Southern Company balancing area (no RTO).
An Alabama Power 230/115 kV substation sits just south of the campus's southern parcel, in the corridor that serves the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant.
Applied Digital pays the full cost to serve its load under Alabama large-load rules.
No behind-the-meter generation announced.

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Sites within 15 miles of Applied Digital: Delta Forge 2

Distance	Site	About
15.75 miles	QTS: Project Marvel	The Bessemer City Council has officially cleared the way for "Project Marvel," a massive 1,600-acre data center campus proposed by Logistic Land Investments LLC.
17.54 miles	Southern Telecom Tuscaloosa
19.09 miles	DataCanopy: Tuscaloosa

Operating Company

Applied Digital (APLD) is a U.S.-based operator of next-generation digital infrastructure, providing solutions to the fields of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). APLD has two business segments: next-generation datacenter colocation services and AI GPU cloud services (under Sai Computing).

History:

In May 2023, it formed a new subsidiary called Sai Computing to provide cloud service for AI compute customers
In April 2022, the company rebranded to Applied Digital from Applied Blockchain

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