Applied Digital Stock Gets a $7.5 Billion AI Lease. Now Comes the Build-Out Test
Applied Digital Corp. signed a $7.5 billion, 15-year lease with an unnamed U.S. hyperscaler for 300 megawatts at its Delta Forge 1 campus, pushing total contracted lease revenue above $23 billion. The campus is set to begin operations in mid-2027. Shares rose over 12% after the announcement. The company ended its fiscal third quarter with $2.1 billion in cash and $2.7 billion in debt.