Applied Digital files 8-K/A: entry into a material agreement
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
First Amendment to ELN-02 Datacenter Lease and Entry Into New Datacenter Lease
As previously reported, on May 28, 2025, APLD ELN-02 LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into the datacenter lease with CoreWeave
Parent (the “ELN-02 Parent Lease”), the material terms of which are described in the Original 8-K. On March 30, 2026, the Company and CoreWeave Parent amended the ELN-02 Parent Lease to suspend the term for two of the four data halls covered by the lease (the “ELN-02 Parent Lease Amendment”) and the Company entered into a new datacenter lease with CoreWeave Compute Acquisition
Co. VIII, LLC (“CoreWeave SPV”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CoreWeave Parent, for those two data halls on substantially the same terms as the ELN-02 Parent Lease (the “ELN-02 SPV Lease”). The ELN-02 SPV Lease is conterminous with the initial term of the ELN-02 Parent Lease. Upon the expiration or earlier termination of the ELN-02 SPV Lease, the suspended term under the ELN-02
Parent Lease will resume and all four data halls of ELN-02 will once again be governed by the ELN-02 Parent Lease.
CoreWeave Parent Guaranty and Letter of Credit
March 30, 2026, as further credit enhancement, CoreWeave Parent delivered to APLD ELN-02 LLC an Unconditional Springing Guaranty of Payment and Performance (the “ELN-02 Guaranty”) in connection with CoreWeave SPV’s obligations under the ELN-02
SPV Lease.
In addition, CoreWeave Parent is obligated to provide a letter of credit in the amount of $50,000,000 to secure obligations under the ELN-02
Parent Lease within 30 days (the “Letter of Credit”).
ELN-03 Assignment and Assumption of Datacenter Lease
As previously reported, on May 28, 2025, APLD ELN-03 LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into the datacenter lease with CoreWeave
Parent (the “ELN-03 Parent Lease”), the material terms of which are described in the Original 8-K. On March 30, 2026, CoreWeave Parent entered into an Assignment, Assumption and Consent Agreement with CoreWeave SPV and APLD ELN-03 LLC (the “Assignment
Agreement”), assigning all of CoreWeave Parent’s rights and obligations under the ELN-03 Parent Lease to CoreWeave SPV for the remaining term of the ELN-03 Parent Lease and releasing CoreWeave Parent from the ELN-03 Parent Lease. In addition, CoreWeave Parent also provided an Unconditional Springing Guaranty of Payment and Performance in connection with CoreWeave SPV’s obligations under the ELN-03 Parent Lease (the “ELN-03 Guaranty”), similar to the ELN-02 Guaranty.
Based on the enhanced credit ratings of CoreWeave Parent’s refinanced indebtedness for each of the ELN-02 and ELN-03 data center facilities, and the additional credit support provided, the Company has determined that the foregoing transactions are favorable to the holders of its 9.250% notes due 2030.
The foregoing description of the ELN-02 Parent Lease, ELN-03 Parent Lease, the ELN-02 Guaranty, the ELN-03 Guaranty and the Assignment
Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the full text of the ELN-02 Parent Lease, ELN-03
Parent Lease, the ELN-02 Guaranty, the ELN-03 Guaranty and the Assignment Agreement, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 10.1 and
10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 2, 2025 and Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K/A, respectively, and are incorporated by reference herein.
This
Current Report on Form 8-K/A and other reports filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC contains “forward-looking statements”
as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding, among other things, future operating and financial performance, product development, market position, business strategy and objectives and future financing plans. These statements use words, and variations of words, such as “will,” “intend,” “continue,” “build,” “future,” “increase,”
“drive,” “believe,” “look,” “ahead,” “confident,” “deliver,”
statements about the high performance compute (“HPC”) industry, (iii) statements of Company plans and objectives, including our evolving business model, or estimates or predictions of actions by suppliers, (iv) statements of future economic performance, (v)
These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include: CoreWeave SPV’s ability to perform its obligations with respect to the refinanced indebtedness, as well as the ELN-02 SPV Lease and ELN-03 Parent Lease following assignment; our ability to complete construction of our data center campuses as planned; the lead time of customer acquisition and leasing decisions and related internal approval processes;
changes to artificial intelligence and high performance compute infrastructure needs and their impact on future plans; costs related to high performing compute operations and strategy; our ability to timely deliver any services required in connection with completion of installation under the lease agreements, including the ELN-02 SPV Lease and the ELN-03 Parent Lease as assigned; our ability to raise additional capital to fund the ongoing data center construction and operations; our ability to obtain financing of datacenter leases on acceptable financing terms, or at all; our dependence on principal customers, including our ability to execute and perform our obligations under our leases with key customers, including without limitation, the datacenter leases with CoreWeave at our Polaris Forge 1 campus, at future data centers and with future tenants; our ability to timely and successfully build new hosting facilities with the appropriate contractual margins and efficiencies; our ability to obtain adequate power for our data centers and on acceptable terms; power or other supply disruptions and equipment failures; the inability to comply with regulations, developments and changes in regulations; cash flow and access to capital; availability of financing to continue to grow our business; decline in demand for our products and services; maintenance of third party relationships; and conditions in the debt and equity capital markets.
Information in this Current Report on Form 8-K/A is as of the dates and time periods indicated herein, and the Company does not undertake to update any of the information contained in these materials, except as required by law.