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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 so I know that industry really well.

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

So I'm accustomed to big cycles.

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

And so when the cycle, the downturn comes, the companies, their revenue goes down significantly and you wait for the next cycle up, which is historically what happens.

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

So our business model, on the other hand, when the downturn comes, if it comes eventually, what happens in our business?

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

Our revenue doesn't go down.

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

It could go to as low as flat growth, right?

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

We won't grow year over year, but you go flat and then you wait for the cycle to come up and then you start to grow revenue again.

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

So I love that business model for us.

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

And then we typically do maintenance and operations on the data center.

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

So we know how to operate.

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

We built it.

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

And then our customer, you know, sends the equipment, what's typically GPUs, networking, and then they'll have a few people on site because we typically don't go in the data halls.

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

They'll do smart hands and repairs and maintenance inside the data hall.

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

We just make sure the power's on and it's cool.

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

And that's really our job.

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

And we have to do that at five nines reliability.

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

So that lets us have downtime, like 23 seconds a month or something like that.

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

So, yeah.

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

So we build these super resilient, redundant facilities with backup power, multiple paths of power, backup cooling, all of these things because that equipment that goes inside is super expensive and it needs to run basically 100% of the time.

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

So that's our job.