Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) specification of 1.18
Company: Applied Digital
The claim, verbatim
AI factory design achieving annual projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18 with closed-loop waterless direct-to-chip cooling
Source (primary)
Five leases lifted Applied Digital (APLD)'s initial-term contracted revenue beyond $7 billion. - Stock Titan (-, news_article)
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Quote: “achieving an annual projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18”
How we checked this
Checked on September 28, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The CEO letter describes the AI factory design as featuring closed-loop, waterless, direct-to-chip cooling and achieving an annual projected PUE of 1.18.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's AI factory design achieves an annual projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18
- The design features closed-loop, waterless, direct-to-chip cooling systems
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/APLD/def-14a-applied-digital-corp-definitive-proxy-statement-295e8d7c8256.html) in full (290,241 characters, retrieved September 26, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Five leases lifted Applied Digital (APLD)'s initial-term contracted revenue beyond $7 billion. - Stock Titan
Quote: “achieving an annual projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.18”