IREN Shares Rally After Securing AI Cloud Contracts with NVIDIA

IREN's Growth and AI Contracts

  • IREN shares rose after securing multi-year AI cloud service contracts with major AI firms for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU deployments.
  • The company aims to exceed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue (ARR) by Q1 2026, based on 23,000 GPUs in operation or on order.
  • Contracts for 11,000 GPUs are signed, expected to generate around $225 million in ARR by the end of 2025.
  • IREN is expanding across British Columbia and Texas data centers, capable of hosting over 100,000 GPUs with 2,910 MW secured power capacity.
  • Co-Founder Daniel Roberts highlighted IREN's rapid transition from ASICs to GPUs to meet growing AI compute demand.

Miners' Performance

  • AI and high-performance computing sectors continue to surge in U.S. trading.
  • Bitfarms (BITF) increased by 12% following a 15% rise on Monday.
  • Hive Digital (HIVE) climbed another 10% after a 25% surge in the previous session.