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DigitalOcean’s AI Pivot Is Accelerating. Can the Economics Keep Up?

$DOCN: revenue growth accelerated to 29%, RPO is up 12x year-over-year to $894M, and the company posted a record $93M of incremental ARR.

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Inder Sabharwal
Aug 04, 2026
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What the company does and how it makes money

Source: digitalocean.com/products.

  • DigitalOcean DOCN 0.00%↑ is trying to provide everything needed to build and run an AI application:

    • It’s own GPUs and data centers, traditional cloud infrastructure and access to more than 70 AI models through one connection.

    • Tools that give models access to private company data and mana…

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