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Wes Cummins

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

I always tell people,

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

Please think of Applied Digital as being a boring business model where I just keep signing 15-year massive leases and then we build the buildings and then that revenue and those earnings start to flow through our income statement.

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

you shouldn't expect anything more from me than just more of those leases and more of those campuses and more of those customers.

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

And that's what we're doing.

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

And we've even simplified our business where, you know, just this week we completed the spin out into another public company of our cloud business.

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

So that simplifies our business even more.

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

We have an IPP that we own 10% of called Base Electron, where that's going to build power generating assets.

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

But Applied Digital itself will have ownership in those.

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

So our shareholders benefit.

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

But we sign data center leases.

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

We build data centers.

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

We deliver them.

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

We operate them.

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

And that's what we do.

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

Yeah, so one, the cloud side of the business, terrific.

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

I think huge amount of potential.

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

You see CoreWeave, you see Nebius, you see what Iron's doing.

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

So I think there's a huge amount of potential there.

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

However, two items here.

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

It's a capital-intensive business.