According to Lisa Abramowicz, Applied Digital struggled to place a junk-bond deal and had to offer ~10% yields to attract buyers, signaling weak demand for the issuer’s new high-yield paper, source: Lisa Abramowicz on X; Bloomberg. She notes Applied Digital provides data center services to CoreWeave, which in turn serves Nvidia and OpenAI, linking the challenged bond sale to the broader AI compute infrastructure supply chain, source: Lisa Abramowicz on X. For trading, the reported 10% yield reflects an elevated risk premium for AI data center credits that can inform relative-value and spread risk assessments across similar AI-infrastructure issuers, source: deal terms and placement difficulty reported by Lisa Abramowicz on X; Bloomberg.