Cloud Infrastructure

IREN

High78% confidenceProfile verified Jul 13, 2026

An Australian data center operator that transitioned from bitcoin mining to AI cloud services, which struck a strategic partnership with NVIDIA in May 2026 combining a $2.1 billion equity investment option, deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA's DSX AI infrastructure, and a separate $3.4 billion managed cloud services contract.

Leading Indicators

Hiring and patent filing trends — the underlying numbers Momentum is computed from. Insider filing activity is tracked separately under Sources below.

Steadyinsider filing activity unchanged since last check

Additional Intelligence Signals

Patent citation lineage, earnings-call mentions, and federal contract disclosures — automatically collected, not yet visible anywhere else on the site.

Earnings-call mentions

Mentions Microsoft, NVIDIA, Perplexity, Figure AI

IREN's customer base now includes Microsoft, NVIDIA, Perplexity, Figure AI, Together AI, Fluidstack, Fireworks AI, Fal AI, Hume AI, and a new leading AI developer

SEC 8-K exhibit (0001140361-26-028871) · Jul 20, 2026

Federal contract disclosures

Department of Homeland Security — $1,903,150: GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM SIMULATOR FOR THE U.S. COAST GUARD ACADEMY.

USAspending.gov · Sep 24, 2024

National Aeronautics and Space Administration — $1,484,890: GNSS SIMULATOR WITH CONTROLLER AND SIMGEN OPERATING SOFTWARE THE DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/STATEMENT OF WORK/PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT LOCATED IN ATTACHMENT J-1.

USAspending.gov · Jan 30, 2026

Department of Defense — $722,560: MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE FOR THE GSS9000 2RF GPS L1/L2, GLONASS L1/L2 AND GALILEO E1/E2 SIMULATOR SYSTEMS SN 90000069, 0041, 0542, 0544, 0545 INCLUDING AES M CODE.

USAspending.gov · Feb 21, 2023

Department of Defense — $525,600: PART NUMBER: PNTX-B-1112 T

USAspending.gov · Sep 30, 2024

Department of Defense — $298,000: SPIRENT RENEWAL 2025

USAspending.gov · Jan 1, 2025

Sources

Every claim traced to a primary source — evidence, recent activity, and insider filing behavior, all in one place.

Evidence

4 sources · 1 government/SEC filing · 80% avg. source confidence

Insider Filing Activity

7Form 4 filings, trailing 90 days0 since last week's snapshot

Counts filing frequency only — transaction direction/size wasn't parseable from the sampled filings · sourced from SEC EDGAR · as of Jul 28, 2026

Correlated Activity

Both IREN and Microsoft Azure which it depends on — are showing accelerating Activity at the same time (2 recorded changes for Microsoft Azure in the last 90 days).

Timing correlation only — not evidence of a causal link

Dependency Map

What IREN depends on below, and who depends on IREN above — click any node to make it the new center, 5 levels deep.

Connection type

Investment
Dependency
Supply Chain
Development
Enablement
Competition / Other
Succession

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The Story So Far (last 6 months)

Apr 2026: Microsoft signs $9.7 billion cloud capacity deal with IRENMay 2026: NVIDIA strategic partnershipMay 2026: NVIDIA and IREN announce strategic partnership with $2.1 billion equity optionMay 2026: IREN's AI Cloud revenue nearly doubles to $33.6M as bitcoin mining revenue declines in Q3…Jul 2026: $2.8B in new AI cloud contracts, raises 2026 ARR target

Auto-generated from this entity's dated milestones, relationship updates, and sourced evidence — not AI-written, just sorted.

IREN's Timeline

A sourced, dated history of IREN's key moments — founding to present.

  1. Jan 2018 · Founded

    IREN was founded as an Australian bitcoin mining operator, later transitioning to AI cloud services.

  2. May 2026 · NVIDIA strategic partnership

    IREN struck a strategic partnership with NVIDIA combining a $2.1 billion equity investment option, deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA's DSX AI infrastructure, and a separate $3.4 billion managed cloud services contract.

  3. Jul 2026 · $2.8B in new AI cloud contracts, raises 2026 ARR target

    IREN signed $2.8 billion of new multi-year AI cloud services contracts with leading AI developers, raising its year-end 2026 AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion.