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Once viewed primarily as a Bitcoin miner, IREN Limited (IREN) is rapidly transforming into one of Wall Street’s most intriguing artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure plays and gaining investors’ attention. The latest catalyst came after the company unveiled a massive five-year, $3.4 billion AI cloud agreement with Nvidia Corporation (NVDA), sending IREN shares sharply higher despite not-so-charming financial results and reinforcing the company’s growing position in the AI compute arms race.
Under the agreement, IREN will provide managed GPU cloud services powered by NVDA Blackwell systems for Nvidia’s own AI and research workloads, while the two companies also plan to collaborate on deploying up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure. Nvidia additionally secured the right to potentially invest as much as $2.1 billion into IREN, a strong signal that the chip giant sees the company as a strategic long-term infrastructure partner.