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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 where's my cost of capital?

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

And this piece in the middle is what shareholders capture, right?

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

It's what we capture.

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

Right.

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

And so if I can do 70, 30, I'm going to push this down.

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

But the reason I want to keep 30% for non-investment grade, I get a higher yield.

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

So I get to push this part up.

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

And so we're trying to make this part in the middle as big as we possibly can.

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

And so I think that's the optimal balance to push cost of capital down, but my yield up as high as I can get my yield on assets.

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

And so that's the reason we're pushing for that.

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

But yes.

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

continue to add new customers, new geographies.

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

This is how we diversify.

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

But we're really focused on the investment grade.

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

So I was around for that.

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

It was kind of how I got introduced into the investment world.

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

And let me tell you what I see is the big difference between the two.

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

So the fiber build, we're probably all happy that that happened because that enabled the entire digital economy that we have now.

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

But when they built the fiber, there was not the applications to fill up the fiber to make it used.

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

And then they needed the fiber to be used to generate revenue and to then have a profitable business and pay for that big capital investment.