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Path to 3 gigawatts of contracted power by 2031

Company: Applied Digital

Subject kind
guidance
Statement date
2026-08-23
Promised by
2031-12-31
Promised amount
3.0 GW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Applied Digital has outlined a path to 3 gigawatts of contracted power by 2031, assuming it can lease at least 500 megawatts per year

Source (primary)

Applied Digital vs. TeraWulf: Which AI Data Center Stock Is the Better Buy? - AOL.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Applied Digital has outlined a path to 3 gigawatts of contracted power by 2031, assuming it can lease at least 500 megawatts per year”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.aol.com/articles/applied-digital-vs-terawulf-ai-134000000.html) in full (9,053 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Applied Digital vs. TeraWulf: Which AI Data Center Stock Is the Better Buy? - AOL.com

Quote: “Applied Digital has outlined a path to 3 gigawatts of contracted power by 2031, assuming it can lease at least 500 megawatts per year”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗