Applied Digital (APLD) and Core Scientific (CORZ) are emerging powerhouses in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure space, each racing to meet surging demand for high-performance data centers. As AI workloads accelerate and investors seek exposure to the digital backbone behind them, both companies have attracted major partnerships — APLD with Nvidia and Macquarie, and CORZ with CoreWeave.While APLD touts aggressive expansion plans and growth in cloud services, CORZ is already executing large-scale AI hosti ...