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15 Oct 2026, 13:44 UTC · 1h ago
Data Center Stocks Tumble as Financing Costs Draw Scrutiny: Cipher Digital Tumbles 9%, Applied Digital Falls 6%
Impact · against what's priced in
The market is aggressively repricing the cost of capital for data center builders, which intensifies the existing skepticism around their ability to scale without crippling dilution. For CIFR and APLD, this confirms a shift from valuing theoretical demand to scrutinizing the actual cost of the debt used to capture that demand.
- CIFR−0.60
Challenges what's priced in
- The price assumes





