Why Applied Digital (APLD) Stock Is Trading Up Today

Shares of digital infrastructure provider Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) jumped 51% in the afternoon session after it signed two long-term lease agreements for artificial intelligence data centers with Nvidia-backed AI hyperscaler CoreWeave. APLD is expected to deliver 250 megawatts (MW) of power for CoreWeave’s AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at its North Dakota data center campus.