8. LEASES

Lease as Lessee

The Company enters into leases for data center capacity, cloud infrastructure, office space and general and administrative purposes under non-cancelable lease arrangements. These leases, including a data center lease acquired as part of the Enovum acquisition in 2024, generally have terms ranging from approximately 2 to 22 years and may include renewal options, purchase options, or both, depending on the nature of the underlying asset. Certain leases include variable payments based on usage, particularly for cloud services. Variable lease costs are recognized as incurred and are not included in the measurement of the right-of-use assets or lease liabilities.

On April 11, 2025, the Company entered into a data center lease agreement in Saint-Jérôme for its data center colocation services. The initial lease term is for 20 years with two five-year extension options. The transaction also includes a fixed-price purchase option exercisable until December 31, 2025. In December 2025, the Company became reasonably certain to exercise the purchase option and remeasured the lease as a finance lease as of December 1, 2025. As a result of the remeasurement of the lease liability, there was a reduction of approximately $23.5 million to the lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. On December 31, 2025, the Company notified the lessor of its intent to exercise the purchase option. The Company had 90 days to complete the purchase, after which the purchase option would expire. The option was exercised on January 14, 2026 and the purchase of MTL-3 was expected to close during the second quarter of 2026. In the first quarter of 2026, the Company remeasured its finance lease liability and right-of-use asset due to a change in the expected closing date of the underlying purchase, which closed on May 8, 2026. As a result, the lease liability increased $30,435, and the right-of-use asset increased $30,435, reflecting the extended term and higher payments. No cash was exchanged in this transaction.

As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, right-of-use asset and lease liabilities consisted of the following:

Operating right-of-use assets are recorded net of accumulated amortization of $9.3 million and $7.7 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

Finance lease right-of-use assets are recorded net of accumulated amortization of $0.2 million and $0.1 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company’s amortization on the operating lease right-of-use assets totaled $1.8 million and $1.1 million, respectively.

For the three months ended March 31, 2026 the Company’s interest expense and amortization on the finance lease were $155,509 and $152,282, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company’s interest expense and amortization on the finance lease were $nil.

The following table presents the components of the Company’s lease expense. GPU lease expenses and data center lease expenses related to operational data centers are included in cost of revenue; data center lease expenses incurred during construction and office lease expenses are included in general and administrative expenses:

Additional information regarding the Company’s leasing activities as a lessee is as follows:

The following table represents our future minimum operating lease payments as of March 31, 2026:

The following table represents our future minimum finance lease payments as of March 31, 2026:

The Company entered into a GPU server lease agreement effective January 2024 for its cloud services designed to support generative AI workstreams. The lease payment depends on the usage of the GPU servers and the Company concludes that the lease payments are variable and will be recognized when they are incurred. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the GPU server lease expense amounted to $3.7 million and $3.7 million, respectively.

Lease as Lessor

The Company enters into sales-type leases for data storage and cloud service equipment. These leases typically have terms ranging from approximately 2 to 6 years.

The Company also enters into sublease arrangements for portions of its leased data center capacity. These subleases generally include fixed payments with automatic renewal options, unless sub-tenant provides at least 90 days’ notice of non-renewal prior to the end of the then-current term.

Lease income from sales-type leases is primarily recognized as interest income over the lease term. The Company’s exposure to credit risk is limited to net investment in leases. 

The components of lease income for the sales-type lease were as follows:

Interest income is included in the consolidated statements of operations under the caption “Revenue – Other”.

The components of net investment in sales-type leases were as follows:

The following table illustrates the Company’s future minimum receipts for sales-type lease as of March 31, 2026:

The present value of minimum sales-type receipts of $12.9 million is included in the consolidated balance sheets under the caption “Net investment in lease”.

The following table illustrates the future lease payments to be received from the Company’s sublease tenant as of March 31, 2026 were as follows: