IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) (together with its subsidiaries,
“IREN”), today provided a business update and strategic outlook,
highlighting momentum in its AI/HPC segments and an evolving
capital allocation strategy aligned with current market conditions.
“As we near completion of our 50 EH/s mining expansion, our
focus is shifting to the next phase of growth and delivering
scalable infrastructure for AI and HPC through our AI Cloud
Services and AI Data Center businesses,” said Daniel Roberts, IREN
Co-Founder and Co-CEO.
“Our capital strategy prioritizes customer prepayments and a
range of debt financing solutions, with the existing ATM facility
providing a strategic backstop to support delivery certainty and
ongoing commercial discussions relating to the AI Cloud Services
and AI Data Center businesses.”
Bitcoin Mining Expansion Paused
IREN will pause all further Bitcoin Mining expansion upon
completion of its 52 EH/s buildout.
This strategic shift reflects a deliberate reallocation of
capital and continued management focus toward AI data centers and
cloud infrastructure, while continuing to leverage strong cashflows
generated by IREN’s existing Bitcoin mining business.
Core Business Overview
IREN operates across three business verticals: Bitcoin Mining,
AI Cloud Services, and AI Data Centers:
1. Bitcoin Mining
- Installed capacity
increased from 31 EH/s to 35 EH/s, following energization of
Childress Phase 4.
- On track to complete
expansion to 50 EH/s in the coming months.
- Expected to generate
$528 million in annualized illustrative net cashflow. 1
- Financing
Strategy: IREN will pause all further Bitcoin Mining
expansion upon completion of its 52 EH/s buildout and intends to
reinvest mining cashflows to support growth of its AI Cloud
Services and AI Data Center businesses.
2. AI Cloud Services
- Operating 1,896
GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 hardware.
- Utilized GPUs
generating annualized run-rate revenue of $26 million as of March
31, 2025.2
- Seeing increased
engagement around large-scale AI cloud infrastructure
opportunities, particularly for multi-thousand air-cooled Blackwell
B200 GPU clusters hosted at IREN’s Prince George data center
following the release of DeepSeek.
- Financing
Strategy: IREN is progressing GPU financing workstreams to
support potential expansion, optimize capital efficiency and
deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
3. AI Data Centers
- Horizon 1 (50MW IT
load):
- Capex of $300–$350
million, expected to be funded primarily through colocation
customer prepayments and debt financing.
- Initial discussions
focused on 50MW of IT load have now evolved into colocation
negotiations covering larger volumes of capacity with multiple
potential customers.
- To preserve
execution speed and maintain IREN’s time-to-market advantage, IREN
has commenced placing long-lead equipment deposits for capacity
beyond the initial 50MW.
- Sweetwater Data
Center Hub (2GW power capacity):
- Investment in
substations and early-stage infrastructure to preserve IREN’s
time-to-power advantage.
- Preparing the site
to enable rapid commencement of data center construction upon
finalization of a customer contract.
- Financing
Strategy:
- IREN remains focused
on optimizing its capital structure to align with current market
conditions.
- Customer prepayments
tied to contracted capacity commitments
- Project-level and
corporate debt instruments
- Convertible
notes
- Asset-backed
financing and leasing
- Reinvestment of
Bitcoin Mining and AI Cloud Service cashflows
- Utilization of the
existing ATM facility (with $111 million raised to date at an
average share price of $11.07) provides a strategic capital
backstop to complement the above sources.3
- IREN believes there
is strong institutional appetite for credit and infrastructure
lending, even ahead of contracted revenue, supported by IREN’s
substantial real asset base, proven execution track record and
robust cashflows generated from its existing Bitcoin Mining and AI
Cloud Service businesses.
Assumptions and Notes
- Illustrative Net Cashflow = illustrative mining revenue less
assumed net electricity costs, overheads and REC costs, and does
not include working capital movements. Source: CoinWarz Bitcoin
Mining Calculator. Illustrative calculations and inputs assume
hardware operates at 100% uptime, 815 EH/s global hashrate,
$0.035/kWh electricity costs, 3.125 BTC block reward, 0.1 BTC
transaction fees and 0.13% pool fees, 765MW (power consumption),
$104m (overheads), $16m (REC costs), and $85k Bitcoin price.
Illustrative Net Cashflow is for illustrative purposes only and
should not be considered projections of IREN's operating
performance. Inputs are based on assumptions, including historical
information, which are likely to be different in the future and
users should input their own assumptions. There is no assurance
that any illustrative outputs will be achieved within the
timeframes presented or at all, or that mining hardware will
operate at 100% uptime. The above should be read strictly in
conjunction with the forward-looking statements disclaimer in this
press release.
- AI Cloud Services annualized run-rate revenue for utilized GPUs
as of March 31, 2025.
- As of March 28, 2025, $111m of gross proceeds have been raised
under the ATM facility at an average share price of $11.07 per
share. Total number of ordinary shares outstanding as of March 28,
2025, is 224,458,888.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events
or IREN’s future financial or operating performance. For example,
forward-looking statements include but are not limited to IREN’s
business strategy, expected operational and financial results, and
expected increase in power capacity and hashrate. In some cases,
you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as
“anticipate,” “believe,” “may,” “can,” “should,” “could,” “might,”
“plan,” “possible,” “project,” “strive,” “budget,” “forecast,”
“expect,” “intend,” “target”, “will,” “estimate,” “predict,”
“potential,” “continue,” “scheduled” or the negatives of these
terms or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence
of these words does not mean that statement is not forward-looking.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks,
uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements or
information that refer to expectations, beliefs, plans,
projections, objectives, performance or other characterizations of
future events or circumstances, including any underlying
assumptions, are forward-looking.
These forward-looking statements are based on management’s
current expectations and beliefs. These statements are neither
promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other important factors that may cause IREN’s
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the forward looking statements, including,
but not limited to: Bitcoin price and foreign currency exchange
rate fluctuations; IREN’s ability to obtain additional capital on
commercially reasonable terms and in a timely manner to meet its
capital needs and facilitate its expansion plans; the terms of any
future financing or any refinancing, restructuring or modification
to the terms of any future financing, which could require IREN to
comply with onerous covenants or restrictions, and its ability to
service its debt obligations, any of which could restrict its
business operations and adversely impact its financial condition,
cash flows and results of operations; IREN’s ability to
successfully execute on its growth strategies and operating plans,
including its ability to continue to develop its existing data
center sites, design and deploy direct-to-chip liquid cooling
systems, and diversify and expand into the market for high
performance computing (“HPC”) solutions it may offer (including the
market for cloud services (“AI Cloud Services”) and potential
colocation services); IREN’s limited experience with respect to new
markets it has entered or may seek to enter, including the market
for HPC solutions (including AI Cloud Services and potential
colocation services); expectations with respect to the ongoing
profitability, viability, operability, security, popularity and
public perceptions of the Bitcoin network and any current and
future HPC solutions (including AI Cloud Services and potential
colocation services) that IREN offers; IREN’s ability to secure and
retain customers on commercially reasonable terms or at all,
particularly as it relates to its strategy to expand into markets
for HPC solutions (including AI Cloud Services and potential
colocation services); IREN’s ability to manage counterparty risk
(including credit risk) associated with any current or future
customers, including customers of its HPC solutions (including AI
Cloud Services and potential colocation services) and other
counterparties; the risk that any current or future customers,
including customers of its HPC solutions (including AI Cloud
Services and potential colocation services), or other
counterparties may terminate, default on or underperform their
contractual obligations; Bitcoin global hashrate fluctuations;
IREN’s ability to secure renewable energy, renewable energy
certificates, power capacity, facilities and sites on commercially
reasonable terms or at all; delays associated with, or failure to
obtain or complete, permitting approvals, grid connections and
other development activities customary for greenfield or brownfield
infrastructure projects; IREN’s reliance on power and utilities
providers, third party mining pools, exchanges, banks, insurance
providers and its ability to maintain relationships with such
parties; expectations regarding availability and pricing of
electricity; IREN’s participation and ability to successfully
participate in demand response products and services and other load
management programs run, operated or offered by electricity network
operators, regulators or electricity market operators; the
availability, reliability and/or cost of electricity supply,
hardware and electrical and data center infrastructure, including
with respect to any electricity outages and any laws and
regulations that may restrict the electricity supply available to
IREN; any variance between the actual operating performance of
IREN’s miner hardware achieved compared to the nameplate
performance including hashrate; IREN’s ability to curtail its
electricity consumption and/or monetize electricity depending on
market conditions, including changes in Bitcoin mining economics
and prevailing electricity prices; actions undertaken by
electricity network and market operators, regulators, governments
or communities in the regions in which IREN operates; the
availability, suitability, reliability and cost of internet
connections at IREN’s facilities; IREN’s ability to secure
additional hardware, including hardware for Bitcoin mining and any
current or future HPC solutions (including AI Cloud Services and
potential colocation services) it offers, on commercially
reasonable terms or at all, and any delays or reductions in the
supply of such hardware or increases in the cost of procuring such
hardware; expectations with respect to the useful life and
obsolescence of hardware, including hardware for Bitcoin mining and
any current or future HPC solutions (including AI Cloud Services
and potential colocation services) IREN offers; delays, increases
in costs or reductions in the supply of equipment used in our
operations including tariffs and certain equipment in high demand
due to global supply chain constraints; IREN’s ability to operate
in an evolving regulatory environment; IREN’s ability to
successfully operate and maintain its property and infrastructure;
reliability and performance of IREN’s infrastructure compared to
expectations; malicious attacks on IREN’s property, infrastructure
or IT systems; IREN’s ability to maintain in good standing the
operating and other permits and licenses required for its
operations and business; IREN’s ability to obtain, maintain,
protect and enforce its intellectual property rights and
confidential information; any intellectual property infringement
and product liability claims; whether the secular trends IREN
expects to drive growth in its business materialize to the degree
it expects them to, or at all; any pending or future acquisitions,
dispositions, joint ventures or other strategic transactions; the
occurrence of any environmental, health and safety incidents at
IREN’s sites, and any material costs relating to environmental,
health and safety requirements or liabilities; damage to IREN’s
property and infrastructure and the risk that any insurance IREN
maintains may not fully cover all potential exposures; ongoing
proceedings relating to the default by two of IREN’s wholly-owned
special purpose vehicles under limited recourse equipment financing
facilities; ongoing securities litigation relating in part to the
default, and any future litigation, claims and/or regulatory
investigations, and the costs, expenses, use of resources,
diversion of management time and efforts, liability and damages
that may result therefrom; IREN's failure to comply with any laws
including the anti-corruption laws of the United States and various
international jurisdictions; any failure of IREN's compliance and
risk management methods; any laws, regulations and ethical
standards that may relate to IREN’s business, including those that
relate to Bitcoin and the Bitcoin mining industry and those that
relate to any other services it offers, including laws and
regulations related to data privacy, cybersecurity and the storage,
use or processing of information and consumer laws; IREN’s ability
to attract, motivate and retain senior management and qualified
employees; increased risks to IREN’s global operations including,
but not limited to, political instability, acts of terrorism, theft
and vandalism, cyberattacks and other cybersecurity incidents and
unexpected regulatory and economic sanctions changes, among other
things; climate change, severe weather conditions and natural and
man-made disasters that may materially adversely affect IREN’s
business, financial condition and results of operations; public
health crises, including an outbreak of an infectious disease and
any governmental or industry measures taken in response; IREN’s
ability to remain competitive in dynamic and rapidly evolving
industries; damage to IREN’s brand and reputation; IREN’s ability
to remediate its existing material weakness and to establish and
maintain an effective system of internal controls; the increased
regulatory and compliance costs of IREN ceasing to be a foreign
private issuer and an emerging growth company, as a result of which
it will be required, among other things, to file periodic reports
and registration statements on U.S. domestic issuer forms with the
SEC commencing with its next fiscal year, and it will also be
required to prepare its financial statements in accordance with
U.S. GAAP rather than IFRS, and to modify certain of its policies
to comply with corporate governance practices required of a U.S.
domestic issuer; that IREN does not currently pay any cash
dividends on its ordinary shares, and may not in the foreseeable
future and, accordingly, the ability to achieve a return on an
investment in its ordinary shares will depend on appreciation, if
any, in the price of its ordinary shares; and other important
factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in IREN’s annual
report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on August 28, 2024 as such
factors may be updated from time to time in its other filings with
the SEC, accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and the
Investor Relations section of IREN’s website at
https://investors.iren.com.
These and other important factors could cause
actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the
forward-looking statements made in this investor update. Any
forward-looking statement that IREN makes in this investor update
speaks only as of the date of such statement. Except as required by
law, IREN disclaims any obligation to update or revise, or to
publicly announce any update or revision to, any of the
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
About IREN
IREN is a leading data center business powering the future of
Bitcoin, AI and beyond utilizing 100% renewable energy.
- Bitcoin Mining:
providing security to the Bitcoin network, expanding to 52 EH/s in
2025. Operations since 2019.
- AI Cloud Services:
providing cloud compute to AI customers, 1,896 NVIDIA H100 &
H200 GPUs. Operations since 2024.
- Next-Generation Data
Centers: 660MW of operating data centers, expanding to 910MW in
2025. Specifically designed and purpose-built infrastructure for
high-performance and power-dense computing applications.
- Technology:
technology stack for performance optimization of AI Cloud Services
and Bitcoin Mining operations.
- Development
Portfolio: 2,910MW of grid-connected power secured across North
America, >2,000 acre property portfolio and multi-gigawatt
development pipeline.
- 100% Renewable
Energy (from clean or renewable energy sources or through the
purchase of RECs): targets sites with low-cost & underutilized
renewable energy, and supports electrical grids and local
communities.
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