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Applied Digital proposes spin-out of cloud business and combination with EKSO to form ChronoScale
Applied Digital Corp.
- Applied Digital will spin out its cloud business, Applied Digital Cloud, and combine with EKSO Bionics (Nasdaq: EKSO) to create ChronoScale.
- Applied Digital would own ~97% of the combined company; ChronoScale expected to close H1 2026, subject to due diligence and approvals.
- Applied Digital Cloud generated ~$75.2M trailing 12-month revenue as of Aug 31, 2025, with strong AI workload demand.
- EKSO plans to pursue sale of its current exoskeleton business after the transaction, per CEO Scott Davis.
- Transaction is non-binding term sheet; ChronoScale to be purpose-built GPU platform for AI workloads.