Macquarie will invest up to $5 billion in data centers being built by artificial-intelligence infrastructure company Applied Digital, adding to the Australian bank’s substantial AI-related investments.

Key Takeaways Applied Digital shares surged in intraday trading Tuesday after announcing that Macquarie Asset Management is investing up to $5 billion in its high-performance computing data centers.Nvidia is already an investor in Applied Digital data centers and announced a stake in the company last year.

Investment firm Macquarie is to invest billions of dollars into data center firm Applied Digital. First reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by the company, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers.