Applied Digital Completes Development Loan Facility with Macquarie Group to Support New AI Factory Campuses

DALLAS, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) (the “Company,” or “Applied Digital”), a builder and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for high-performance computing (“HPC”) and artificial intelligence (“AI”) workloads, today announced it has entered into a loan facility with Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Market’s business (“Macquarie”) to fund the pre-lease development costs for new data center projects.

The facility was entered into on December 18, 2025, by APLD DevCo LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Digital, and Macquarie and provides pre-lease development capital to support the early-stage sourcing, planning, development, and construction of new data center campuses and other potential projects. Applied Digital is currently in advanced-stage negotiations with another investment-grade hyperscaler for multiple campuses and the initial $100 million in draws from this facility is intended to support related development activities at these campuses.

The loan facility is designed to support Applied Digital’s disciplined site-development strategy during the pre-lease phase, intended to enable the Company to advance projects efficiently while aligning capital deployment with customer demand.

“This development facility strengthens our ability to move quickly on high-quality sites while maintaining capital flexibility,” said Wes Cummins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Digital. “As demand for AI-optimized data center infrastructure continues to accelerate, this financing is intended to support our strategy of developing purpose-built campuses for hyperscale customers.”

Applied Digital continues to advance multiple large-scale data center opportunities as part of its broader AI infrastructure platform, aligned with growing hyperscale demand.

In connection with the loan facility, Northland Securities, Inc. (d/b/a Northland Capital Markets) acted as sole placement agent. Lowenstein Sandler LLP acted as counsel to the Company and Latham & Watkins LLP acted as counsel to the lender.

About Applied Digital

Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD) named Best Data Center in the Americas 2025 by Datacloud — designs, builds, and operates high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, and founded in 2021, the Company combines hyperscale expertise, proprietary waterless cooling, and rapid deployment capabilities to deliver secure, scalable compute at industry-leading speed and efficiency, while creating economic opportunities in underserved communities through its award-winning Polaris Forge AI Factory model.

Learn more at applieddigital.com or follow @APLDdigital on X and LinkedIn.

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