IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN), a Bitcoin miner and data center operator, announced on October 7, that it has signed several multi-year contracts to provide cloud computing services using NVIDIA’s upcoming Blackwell GPUs.
According to an official statement, the agreements represent roughly $225 million in annualized run-rate revenue (ARR), with 11,000 of the company’s 23,000 GPUs already pre-sold. The contracts are part of IREN’s ongoing expansion into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure using its existing facilities in British Columbia and Childress, Texas.
Industry shift from mining to AI infrastructure
IREN’s expansion reflects a wider industry trend in which firms originally focused on digital asset mining are adapting their high-capacity energy and cooling infrastructure to support AI workloads. While pre-contracting high-end GPUs such as NVIDIA’s Blackwell models provides upfront revenue visibility, it also underscores the capital intensity.
The Bitcoin miner is also discontinuing its monthly operating updates in favor of standardized reporting, aligning its disclosure approach with traditional cloud and data center operators.
IREN’s Outlook and next steps
The new contracts mark a material step in IREN’s shift toward AI compute services, a segment experiencing strong demand for high-performance infrastructure. Execution on GPU deployment timelines and operational performance will determine whether the company reaches its projected $500 million ARR by early 2026.
The development highlights how firms with existing power and hardware capacity are positioning themselves within both the AI and digital asset infrastructure sectors.
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