It’s not the 322% revenue growth that catches your eye in Applied Digital's (APLD) recent earnings, but how the company plans to turn today’s AI infrastructure demand into decades of revenue.
The AI boom could last for years; thus, Applied Digital is building its business around a much longer horizon. The company wants to develop data centers that remain useful through multiple generations of computing hardware, backed by long-term contracts with major technology customers. Its recent fiscal first-quarter earnings call offered a closer look at how it plans to turn that vision into recurring revenue.