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Applied Digital

Applied Digital designs, builds, owns and operates large data center campuses in North Dakota and the U.S. South that are purpose-built for AI and other high-performance computing, and leases the capacity to large tenants. It began by hosting crypto-mining machines, which it still does at some sites.

InfrastructureData centers
What it does

Applied Digital designs, builds, owns and operates large data center campuses in North Dakota and the U.S. South that are purpose-built for AI and other high-performance computing, and leases the capacity to large tenants. It began by hosting crypto-mining machines, which it still does at some sites.

Why it matters

It is a landlord for AI compute: its Polaris Forge 1 campus was built for and leased to CoreWeave, and it has since signed leases with an unnamed investment-grade hyperscaler for further campuses. In July 2026 it separated its GPU cloud business into ChronoScale (Nasdaq: CHRN), of which it said it owns about 96%.

How it makes money

Collects long-term lease and hosting payments from AI cloud tenants such as CoreWeave and from crypto-mining hosting customers.

Geography

United States (Dallas, Texas)

AI stack position

Data centers and physical infrastructure. The buildings, land, cooling systems, backup power and electrical equipment that physically house AI computing. Every AI model has to run somewhere — these companies build and operate the real-world facilities that make that possible.

Competitors

Connections (2)

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Current relationships (1)

Applied Digital leases AI data center capacity to CoreWeave
Provides infrastructure toCurrent
Applied Digital said its first 100 MW building at the Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota reached full Ready for Service status for CoreWeave, which leases the campus's 400 MW under long-term agreements.

Source: 2025-11-24 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Establishes that the first building was delivered to CoreWeave; does not establish when the remaining buildings will be delivered, lease payments actually received, or what CoreWeave runs there or for whom.

Applied Digital Completes Phase II Ready for Service at Polaris Forge 1, Fully Energizing First 100 MW Building ↗

Comparisons (1)

Applied Digital competes with IREN
Competes withComparison only
Uptime Institute named Applied Digital and IREN among the companies now in AI infrastructure that originated as crypto-mining ventures.

Source: 2025-10-22 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: Market overlap only: both repurpose power-rich sites for AI, but Applied Digital mainly leases buildings to tenants while IREN mainly rents out GPU capacity; does not establish head-to-head competition for any specific customer.

Crypto mines are turning into AI factories (Uptime Institute) ↗

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