Sweetwater site total capacity
Company: IREN - Project: Sweetwater Hub
The claim, verbatim
Sweetwater site will have total capacity of 2,000 megawatts across two phases: Sweetwater 1 with 1,400 megawatts and Sweetwater 2 with 600 megawatts
Source (primary)
Iren's Sweetwater Announcement Hints at a Larger Gigawatt Pipeline Than the Public Number - The Globe and Mail (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Sweetwater 1 will be 1.4 gigawatts, while Sweetwater 2 will have 600 megawatts of capacity”
How we checked this
Checked on September 22, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Sweetwater is a 2-gigawatt site with Sweetwater 1 at 1.4 gigawatts and Sweetwater 2 at 600 megawatts, matching every part of the claim.
Confirmed in the source:
- Sweetwater is a 2-gigawatt (2,000 megawatt) site
- Sweetwater 1 will be 1.4 gigawatts (1,400 megawatts)
- Sweetwater 2 will have 600 megawatts of capacity
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-news/Motley%20Fool/4532788/iren-s-sweetwater-announcement-hints-at-a-larger-gigawatt-pipeline-than-the-public-number/) in full (8,647 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Iren's Sweetwater Announcement Hints at a Larger Gigawatt Pipeline Than the Public Number - The Globe and Mail
Quote: “Sweetwater 1 will be 1.4 gigawatts, while Sweetwater 2 will have 600 megawatts of capacity”