Boyce, LA · Rapides County · 31.400°N 92.650°W
Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 AI Factory Campus
Applied Digital Corporation
Key facts
- Location
- Boyce, LA, Rapides County
- Capacity
- 300 MW planned
- Powered by
- Grid (Cleco)
- Announced
- 2026-05
- Last updated
Civic impact
Economics
- Investment
- $3.6B
- Land
- 300 acres
- Jobs
- 1,000 construction · 200 permanent
Energy & water
- Energy source
- Grid · Utility: Cleco
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
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 subsidies
- Louisiana Act 730 Sales and Use Tax Exemption on data center equipmentLouisiana · 2026
Status history
- Proposed
Applied 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.
Central Louisiana secures $3.6B Applied Digital AI Factory Campus - Under construction
Site development begins January 2026. Location publicly revealed as Boyce, Rapides Parish in May 2026.
Central Louisiana secures $3.6B Applied Digital AI Factory Campus
Location
Sources & data provenance
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Last updated:
- Louisiana Economic DevelopmentRetrieved:
- Rapides Parish JournalRetrieved:
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