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IREN Shares Soar 11% After Doubling AI Cloud Capacity to 23,000 GPUs
- IREN (IREN) shares increased by 11% in pre-market trading, reaching $43.
- The company doubled its AI Cloud capacity to 23,000 GPUs, aiming for an annualized revenue target of over $500 million by Q1 2026.
- An investment of approximately $674 million was made in NVIDIA and AMD hardware: 7,100 NVIDIA B300s, 4,200 NVIDIA B200s, and 1,100 AMD MI350Xs.
- The new equipment will be delivered over the coming months at the Prince George campus and Texas facilities, which can host over 60,000 Blackwell GPUs.
- The expanded GPU fleet includes 1,900 NVIDIA H100s and H200s, 19,100 NVIDIA B200s and B300s, 1,200 NVIDIA GB300s, and 1,100 AMD MI350Xs.
- The addition of AMD hardware is intended to broaden IREN’s offerings and customer reach.
- Co-CEO Daniel Roberts stated that the expansion demonstrates the strength of IREN's vertically integrated platform amid rising global demand for compute power.
- IREN plans financing initiatives to support growth while maintaining its 50 EH/s bitcoin mining operations.