{"id":261106,"date":"2026-01-24T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:08:10","slug":"applied-digital-jumps-after-breaking-ground-on-new-ai-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261106\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Digital Jumps After Breaking Ground on New AI Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD), a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> data center operator, closed Friday at $37.69, up 8.49%. The stock climbed after yesterday\u2019s news that it had begun building a new \u201cAI Factory,\u201d reflecting demand for its purpose-built AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Trading volume reached 47.5 million shares, about 52% above its three-month average of 30.1 million shares. Applied Digital IPO’d in 2022 and has grown over 700% since going public.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) and the Nasdaq<\/a> Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) barely moved today. The S&P 500 gained 0.03% to 6,915, and the Nasdaq gained 0.28% to close at 23,501.<\/p>\n

Within cloud computing & data analytics, industry peers Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) closed up 3.93% at $18.79 and Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) gained 0.45% to end at $159.16, underscoring steady interest in data center and AI-linked names.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s increase for Applied Digital follows an extraordinary year in which the stock gained over 300%. The data center firm continued to rally even as Jim Cramer urged investors to take profits.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s jump comes after yesterday\u2019s announcement that the firm had broken ground on Delta Forge 1, a new AI factory campus in a Southern U.S. state. The 430MW AI factory is due to start operations in mid-2027.<\/p>\n

Texas Capital also upgraded the stock from \u201cBuy\u201d to \u201cStrong Buy.\u201d Roth Capital and Needham both recently reiterated their \u201cBuy\u201d ratings.<\/p>\n

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Stock Market Today, Jan. 23: Applied Digital Jumps After Breaking Ground on New AI Factory<\/a> was originally published by The Motley Fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD), a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) data center operator, closed Friday at $37.69, up 8.49%. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,1291,83811,218,219,2392,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-261106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-infrastructure","10":"tag-applied-digital","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-data-center","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}