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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 now we do have that being used, of course, right?

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

But it took almost a decade, right?

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

We didn't have Netflix.

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

We didn't have YouTube.

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

We didn't have TikTok.

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

We didn't have any of those things that fill up all that fiber usage now.

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

Today is very different.

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

So the uses, like, you know, we saw how the adoption rate of ChatGPT, we've seen the adoption rate of Claude.

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

We've seen all of these things.

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

When I turn over a data center to my customer, it's 100 percent used day one.

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

They've seen all of the talk about we're short compute capacity and we need more compute.

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

That's absolutely true.

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

The revenue ramps on these companies, I mean, Claude, OpenAI, they're headed towards $100 billion of annual revenue.

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

We've never seen anything like this.

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

The adoption curve that we saw for the Internet was a curve.

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

and then this one is just like a straight up line like it's it's nothing we've ever seen before revenue user adoption all of those pieces and the fact that our data centers are used 100 we didn't build it and then go okay let's hopefully we get utilization we're contracted it's being used

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

You know, the bubble talk, it's funny to me.

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

So like back in October, November, December of last year, every conversation I had was like bubble, bubble, bubble.

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

And then that conversation shifted this year, you know, where it's been more like, what job does AI kill next?

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

What company does AI kill next?