IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering – The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs
The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and filed for a potential $6 billion at-the-market share sale, sending the stock lower in pre-market trading.
- IREN agreed to buy over 50,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs, bringing its total fleet to about 150,000 GPUs, with deployment expected during the second half across its data centers in British Columbia and Texas.
- The shares fell around 5% in pre-market trading after the company disclosed plans for a potential at-the-market equity offering of up to $6 billion.
IREN (IREN), a data center operator focused on AI cloud infrastructure, said it agreed to buy more than 50,000 specialized processing chips from Nvidia (NVDA), expanding its capacity by about 50%.
The B300 GPUs, or graphic processing units, will take the Sydney-based company’s total AI compute fleet to about 150,000 GPUs. A GPU is a specialized chip for performing large numbers of parallel computations, enabling the training and operation of artificial intelligence models at high speed.
The company also filed for a potential at-the-market share sale of up to $6 billion as part of its broader capital management strategy. The shares dropped 5% in pre-market trading on Thursday due to potential dilution.
The additional hardware is expected to be deployed in phases through the second half of 2026 across the company’s air-cooled data centers in Mackenzie, British Columbia, and Childress, Texas. Once fully deployed, the expanded fleet is projected to support more than $3.7 billion in annualized AI cloud revenue, positioning IREN among the larger AI cloud infrastructure providers globally.
IREN said it has secured about $9.3 billion in funding over the past eight months through customer prepayments, convertible notes, GPU leasing and financing arrangements, with roughly $3.5 billion in additional capital expenditures expected for the new GPU deployments in the second half of 2026.
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IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering – The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs, source
