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Australia’s Macquarie to invest up to $5 bln in Applied Digital data centers

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Australia’s Macquarie to invest up to $5 bln in Applied Digital data centers

Jan 14 (Reuters) – Australia’s Macquarie (MQG.AX), on Tuesday agreed to take a 15% stake in Applied Digital’s (APLD.O), high-performance computing business and invest up to $5 billion in the company’s artificial intelligence data centers amid booming AI demand.

Shares of Applied Digital rose about 20% before the opening bell.

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Macquarie’s asset management arm has agreed to invest up to $900 million in a data center campus that Applied Digital is developing in North Dakota.

Dallas, Texas-based Applied Digital also has the right of first refusal to invest an additional $4.1 billion in future company data centers for 30 months, the company said.

Applied Digital Chief Executive Wes Cummins said the deal provides the company with enough equity to construct data centers with high power demands.

The new funding will be used to repay debt Applied Digital took on to build the facilities in North Dakota and will allow it to recover over $300 million of its equity investment in them, the firm said.

Applied Digital’s shares have more than tripled in the past two years as investors bet on AI firms and data center providers to bring strong levels of growth.

Microsoft (MSFT.O), said earlier this month it would invest around $80 billion in AI data centers in fiscal 2025 to meet growing computational needs.

Applied Digital is set to report its second-quarter results on Tuesday after the markets close.

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