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“Applied Digital Surges After Landing Massive $7.5 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal” 🚨🚨🚨

Applied Digital shares soared after-hours after the company announced another massive long-term lease agreement tied to the booming AI infrastructure market.

The new 15-year take-or-pay lease with an unnamed “investment-grade” hyperscaler is valued at $7.5 billion and could expand to as much as $18.2 billion if all contract options are exercised, according to the company.

The agreement follows a similar blockbuster deal Applied Digital revealed earlier this year, reinforcing investor confidence that demand for AI data center capacity remains extremely strong as hyperscalers race to secure infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads.

With the latest contract, Applied Digital says its total contracted lease revenue has now climbed to roughly $31 billion — or potentially $73 billion if all expansion options across agreements are fully utilized.

The company also announced it has surpassed 1 gigawatt of contracted capacity, a major milestone that highlights the staggering scale of power and infrastructure now being committed to AI development.

The newly leased campus, described only as being located in a “northern state,” will serve as Applied Digital’s fourth AI factory campus. While the hyperscaler customer was not disclosed, speculation is likely to center around major cloud and AI players aggressively expanding compute capacity, including companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, or Meta.

The announcement underscores one of the defining trends of the AI boom: the enormous scramble for physical infrastructure.

As AI models become larger and more compute-intensive, hyperscalers are rapidly locking in long-term access to power, land, cooling systems, and data center capacity to avoid future shortages.

Applied Digital has increasingly positioned itself as a key beneficiary of that demand surge, transforming from a niche infrastructure company into a major player in AI-focused data center development.

For investors, the size and duration of these contracts signal that hyperscalers are making decade-long bets on sustained AI growth — and companies supplying the infrastructure behind that expansion are becoming some of the market’s biggest winners.