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Wes Cummins

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The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And then as we go forward, we should add more contracts and more contracts.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

But you should think about it, the debt load in a future cash flow scenario once these buildings are online, not what our last quarter said.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

Yeah.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

So hard for it to go sour with the way these these contracts are.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

you know, 600 pages.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

They're huge.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And we spend a ton of time negotiating these so that you kind of cover every contingency possible.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

Now we have to perform.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

You always have to perform on contracts.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

So we have that part.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

But CoreWeave is now just under 50% of the revenue.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

So they're 11 billion out of the 23 and a half billion.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And I said on our last earnings call, look, the goal for us is to get investment grade hyperscalers to

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

uh 70 of total contracted revenue so that that means i need to get my total contract revenue to just above 36 billion dollars right that's that's how the math works and so working on that i think we we see that here in in the in the near future for us and so we just keep adding new customers all we're focused very much on investment grade at this point now over time

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

We want to keep that balance.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And why do you want to keep that balance?

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And here's the whole key for me for the 70-30.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

At 70% investment grade and 30% non-investment grade, I get my whole portfolio basically treated as investment grade.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

So that lowers my cost of capital significantly.

The Rundown
How Applied Digital Became the Landlord for Big Tech’s AI Buildout

And at the end of the day, this is a game of what's my yield on asset?