• Refinances senior secured credit facility with former senior lender, lowering overall cost of capital for the Company’s Ellendale High Performance Computing (“HPC”) data center campus and avoiding costly December 7, 2024 increase to the minimum return hurdle.
• Eliminates parent guarantee and cross collateralization of other assets, increasing flexibility for future corporate and project level debt financings.
• Provides further validation of Ellendale HPC project through a senior secured financing partnership with one of the world’s largest infrastructure investors.

DALLAS – December 2, 2024 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) (“Applied Digital” or the “Company”), a designer, builder and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for HPC applications, announced today that the Company, through its subsidiary, APLD Holdings 2, LLC, closed a $150 million senior secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital, Inc., a division of Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets’ business (“Macquarie”). APLD Holdings 2, LLC issued a Promissory Note (the “Note”) for the full $150 million in gross proceeds on November 27^th, 2024, and simultaneously repaid its obligations under the Senior Secured Credit Facility with CIM Group, removing encumbrances on assets outside of APLD Holdings 2, as well as the parent guarantee. The remaining net proceeds will be used to repay other outstanding debt and pay transaction expenses.

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