Business and Basis of Presentation |
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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| Business and Basis of Presentation | Business and Basis of Presentation Applied Digital Corporation (the “Company”) is a designer, builder, and operator of high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads. The Company has two reportable segments. Financial information for each segment is contained in Note 19 - Business Segments. Previously, the Company had three reportable segments as of the fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2026. Following the May 2026 transaction as defined in Note 3 - Business Combination, ChronoScale no longer meets the criteria to be considered a reportable segment as its operating results are managed and evaluated by ChronoScale's Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM") rather than the Company's CODM (as described below). All references to “Applied Digital Corporation,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” mean Applied Digital Corporation and its subsidiaries. Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, its subsidiaries and investment products that are consolidated. The Company evaluates any variable interest entity ("VIE") in which the Company has a variable interest for consolidation. A VIE is an entity in which either (i) the equity investment at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its own activities without additional financial support, or (ii) where, as a group, the holders of the equity investment at risk do not possess any one of the following: (a) the power through voting or similar rights to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance, (b) the obligation to absorb expected losses or the right to receive expected residual returns of the entity, or (c) proportionate voting and economic interests and where substantially all of the entity's activities either involve or are conducted on behalf of an investor with disproportionately fewer voting rights. If an entity has any of these characteristics, it is considered a VIE and is required to be consolidated by its primary beneficiary. The primary beneficiary is the entity that has both the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the VIE's economic performance and has the obligation to absorb losses of, or the right to receive benefits from, the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. In evaluating whether the Company is the primary beneficiary, the Company evaluates its power to direct the most significant activities of the VIE by considering the purpose and design of the entity and the risks the entity was designed to create and pass through to its variable interest holders. A voting interest entity ("VOE") is consolidated when the Company is considered to have a controlling financial interest, which is typically present when the Company owns a majority of the voting interest in an entity or otherwise has the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity. See Note 11 - Variable Interest Entities for additional information related to the consolidation of investments. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
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