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Nebius soars on new energy partnership worth up to $2.6 billion with Bloom Energy, and unverified reports about price hikes

Nebius is up 8% in premarket trading on Thursday on a double dose of news flow.

The first is more solid: the AI cloud company announced that it is partnering with Bloom Energy to deploy Bloom’s fuel cell technology to power its AI infrastructure build-out, with their first project expected to deliver 328 MW of installed capacity this year.

The second, that Nebius is raising its prices by ~30% for its on-demand (pay as you go) rates for access to its Nvidia GPUs, is unverified, stemming from a tweet from a user on X, who claims to have been emailed by the company about the price changes.

If true, it goes without saying that a 28-30% jump in spot prices to rent H100, H200, B200, or B300 chips, is a pretty bullish statement on the continued demand for compute.

Per Nebius’ press release, Bloom’s fuel cell systems will provide on-site, behind-the-meter electricity for the neocloud company to meet demand for Nebius’ full-stack AI cloud platform initially in the US, with potential for global expansion. In a 6-K filing, Nebius gave more detail, with the power capacity being provided under expected to come online in three phases, each with a supply term of 10 years. All told, Nebius will pay “pay monthly services fees of up to $2.6 billion in the aggregate.”

Through Bloom’s systems, “clean power with virtually no pollutants is deployed onsite, on the timelines our customers need, with the availability AI workloads require,” commented Andrey Korolenko, Chief Product and Infrastructure Officer at Nebius. Nebius also noted in the press release that the technology generates electricity without combustion, and tends to face a lighter permitting hurdle than combustion-based systems. Its modular design allows for faster deployment across the board.

The news comes as Nebius and its neocloud peers like CoreWeave and IREN face new competitors like Google and Blackstone’s new AI cloud company in the race to build out AI infrastructure-for-rent. Shares of Bloom Energy are also up 3% this morning.

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Applied Digital inks new $7.5 billion lease with hyperscaler it first booked in April

Applied Digital saw its price soar after hours on news of a long-term lease agreement with the same “investment-grade” hyperscaler it struck a similar deal with in April.

The additional lease for 15 years in a take-or-pay arrangement is valued at $7.5 billion, and could rise to $18.2 billion if all options are exercised, according to the company's announcement.

This latest contract would bring Applied Digital's total contracted lease revenue to $31 billion, or $73 billion if all options are taken up.

The company also crowed about passing 1 GW of contracted capacity as it lands a customer for its fourth AI factory campus. The customer in question is not named, nor the exact location, just that the campus is “located in a northern state.”

The additional lease for 15 years in a take-or-pay arrangement is valued at $7.5 billion, and could rise to $18.2 billion if all options are exercised, according to the company's announcement.

This latest contract would bring Applied Digital's total contracted lease revenue to $31 billion, or $73 billion if all options are taken up.

The company also crowed about passing 1 GW of contracted capacity as it lands a customer for its fourth AI factory campus. The customer in question is not named, nor the exact location, just that the campus is “located in a northern state.”

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Intuit plummets after reporting slowing revenue growth

Is it a worse day to be an Intuit employee or an Intuit shareholder?

On Wednesday, the financial and business tech company announced third-quarter earnings and sweeping layoffs on the same day. The TurboTax parent company said it would cut 17% of its workers — approximately 3,000 people — to focus on its AI efforts, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

The stock was down 3.8% during market hours. It dropped further when Intuit released third-quarter results after the bell showing the slowest year-over-year revenue growth since 2024, falling 10% after-hours.

Here are the numbers:

  • Q3 revenue of $8.56 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $8.54 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $12.80 (estimate: $12.54).

  • Raised full-year guidance for revenue of $21.34 billion to $21.37 billion (estimate: $21.24 billion).

“We delivered strong third-quarter results, driven by our AI-driven expert platform strategy,” said Sasan Goodarzi, chairman and CEO of Intuit. “As a result, we are raising our full-year revenue guidance for fiscal 2026.”

Shares of Intuit are down nearly 40% this year.

On Wednesday, the financial and business tech company announced third-quarter earnings and sweeping layoffs on the same day. The TurboTax parent company said it would cut 17% of its workers — approximately 3,000 people — to focus on its AI efforts, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

The stock was down 3.8% during market hours. It dropped further when Intuit released third-quarter results after the bell showing the slowest year-over-year revenue growth since 2024, falling 10% after-hours.

Here are the numbers:

  • Q3 revenue of $8.56 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $8.54 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $12.80 (estimate: $12.54).

  • Raised full-year guidance for revenue of $21.34 billion to $21.37 billion (estimate: $21.24 billion).

“We delivered strong third-quarter results, driven by our AI-driven expert platform strategy,” said Sasan Goodarzi, chairman and CEO of Intuit. “As a result, we are raising our full-year revenue guidance for fiscal 2026.”

Shares of Intuit are down nearly 40% this year.

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