Applied Digital's $5 billion investment announcement is contingent on closing a 100 MW deal with a hyperscaler, which remains uncertain. Explore more details here.

(Corrects paragraph 1 to say Macquarie will take a stake in Applied Digital's high-performance computing unit, not the whole company. The error was there in previous versions of the story; Removes ref

Investment firm Macquarie is to invest billions of dollars into data center firm Applied Digital. First reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by the company, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers.