🚨 $IREN just purchased 2.4k Blackwell GPUs (B200/B300)
What most investors don’t realize is that $IREN's GPU cloud is among the only ones capable of offering *air-cooled* B200/B300 GPUs at scale.
Unlike the GB200/GB300 models, which require extremely CAPEX-intensive liquid-cooled data centers (and carry higher OPEX as well), the B200 and B300 can be run in air-cooled environments — *IF* your infrastructure is good enough.
However, most air-cooled data centers don’t have the rack densities (i.e., cooling capabilities) to support these cost-effective Blackwell models.
To deploy B300s effectively and get solid performance, your air-cooled facility needs to support rack densities of at least 60 kW — ideally even higher.
Unfortunately for most of the industry, the majority of air-cooled data centers operate below 30 kW per rack.
Meanwhile, $IREN's air-cooled facilities operate at industry-leading rack densities of 80 kW — likely the highest achieved at scale for air-cooled data centers.
When I met $IREN's CCO Kent Draper a few weeks ago, he expressed just how excited he was about the company’s competitive edge in air-cooled data center design — and the massive opportunity that exists in the B200/B300 segment.
I expect $IREN to take full advantage of this edge and scale its B200/B300 fleet aggressively in the coming year — while competitors struggle to deploy these GPUs efficiently.
Unlike $CRWV or $NBIS, $IREN owns & operates 100% of its infrastructure, resulting in industry-leading gross margins of 98%. Its only real cost of revenue is electricity.
This margin lead will likely widen even further with the shift toward air-cooled Blackwell models.
Very exciting future ahead for $IREN — this is just the beginning!
$IREN is pleased to announce the expansion of its AI Cloud business:
- Purchase of ~2,400 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (B200/B300)
- Fully funded from cash reserves
- Deploying at Prince George data center
- Increases total fleet to ~4,300 NVIDIA GPUs
- Unlocks next-gen training and inference at scale
- Expecting strong risk-adjusted returns
- Supports opportunities across AI Data Center business
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