Artificial intelligence (AI) spending continues to ramp up at an explosive pace. One clear sign of this is that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said last week that the company now expects to generate more than $1 trillion in AI chip revenue from its Blackwell and Rubin architectures alone from 2025 through 2027.
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As companies race to adopt AI, demand for data center capacity, power, and specialized infrastructure is also soaring. CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) are well positioned to benefit from this trend, though they operate under different business models. CoreWeave primarily leases and operates AI cloud infrastructure within data centers, while Applied Digital builds and leases out data centers.
But which of these two growth stocks looks better positioned to create long-term wealth for shareholders from here?
CoreWeave has emerged as one of the prominent AI cloud players. Unlike traditional cloud providers, it offers infrastructure that’s purpose-built and optimized for AI workloads.
The company’s recent financial performance has been impressive. In 2025, revenues surged 168% to over $5.1 billion. CoreWeave also exited the year with $66.8 billion in contracted backlog, giving it a robust level of revenue visibility for future years. Most of the new capacity it will bring online this year is already allocated, and the company expects these contracts to begin generating revenue as that capacity comes online.
CoreWeave is also acquiring customers at an exceptional pace. In the fourth quarter, the company added nearly twice as many new long-term customers as it did in its best previous quarters. The number of customers spending at least $1 million annually with CoreWeave also increased by nearly 150% in 2025.
The company has also been diversifying its customer…
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