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Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish)

Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Louisiana (Entergy Louisiana / SWEPCO / Cleco — MISO South, LRZ 9; regulator: Louisiana Public Service Commission)

~300 acres of a 672-acre parcel along I-49 near Boyce, Rapides Parish, central Louisiana. Two initial facilities; Cleco territory (not Entergy). AI training/inference purpose-built.

Capacity
300 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

67.8 /100
67.8/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Applied Digital Delta Forge 1 (Rapides Parish) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-05-26).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Applied Digital
Developer
— —
Cleco
Utility Provider
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E1
    Louisiana Economic Development - Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus

    Louisiana Economic Development · May 26, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/central-louisiana-secures-3-6-billion-applied-digital-ai-factory-campus

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E1
    Louisiana Economic Development - Central Louisiana Secures $3.6 Billion Applied Digital AI Factory Campus

    · Louisiana Economic Development · relevance 0.95