30-year cost savings from energy efficiency
Company: Applied Digital
The claim, verbatim
100-megawatt facility with the company's cooling efficiency is expected to deliver approximately $2.7 billion in cost savings over 30 years compared to traditional data centers
Source (primary)
Applied Digital DEF 14A filed 2025-09-22 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “potentially $2.7 billion over 30 years for a 100-megawatt facility compared to traditional data centers”
How we checked this
Checked on September 16, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The shareholder letter states the $2.7 billion, 30-year, 100-megawatt savings figure relative to traditional data centers.
Confirmed in the source:
- Applied Digital states its efficiencies could yield cost savings of potentially $2.7 billion over 30 years for a 100-megawatt facility
- The comparison is against traditional data centers
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000149315225014495/formdef14a.htm) in full (214,994 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital DEF 14A filed 2025-09-22
Quote: “potentially $2.7 billion over 30 years for a 100-megawatt facility compared to traditional data centers”