Total debt of $5.1B funding data center construction
Company: Applied Digital
The claim, verbatim
Applied Digital's debt stands at $5.1 billion against $1.59 billion of cash, with construction funded by lenders rather than customers.
Source (primary)
Applied Digital (APLD) Reports Wednesday With 21% of Its Float Sold Short - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Debt stands at $5.1 billion against $1.59 billion of cash, so the construction is funded by lenders rather than by customers.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 7, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states that debt is $5.1 billion against $1.59 billion of cash. It says this means the construction is funded by lenders rather than customers. The funding point is the author's reading of those figures, not a separately reported fact.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital's debt stands at $5.1 billion
- Applied Digital holds $1.59 billion of cash
- Applied Digital's construction is funded by lenders rather than by customers (the article's characterization)
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/applied-digital-apld-reports-wednesday-072723837.html) in full (11,973 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital (APLD) Reports Wednesday With 21% of Its Float Sold Short - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “Debt stands at $5.1 billion against $1.59 billion of cash, so the construction is funded by lenders rather than by customers.”