Horizon 1 AI data center commissioning H2 2025
Company: IREN - Project: Horizon
What the later record shows
The date slipped · new target December 31, 2026
No passage says Horizon 1 was commissioned in H2 2025. In May 2026, IREN said Horizons 1-4 were on track for delivery by year-end 2026, which implies Horizon 1 had not yet been delivered.
“Childress Horizon 1 (Texas, USA) 75 N/A Under construction”
2025-08-27 · IREN 10-K filed 2025-08-28 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
“2026 expansion to 480MW on track o Horizon 1-4 on track for delivery by year-end”
2026-05-07 · iren 8-K exhibit (irenreportsq3fy26results.htm) View cached copy (2026-09-08)Live source ↗
Checked October 16, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Horizon 1, a 50MW IT load liquid-cooled AI data center at Childress, is on track for commissioning/delivery in H2 2025.
Source (primary)
iren 8-K exhibit (aprilmonthlyupdatevf.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
View cached copy (2026-10-16)Live source ↗
Quote: “Horizon 1 (50MW IT load) on track for H2 2025 commissioning”
How we checked this
Checked on October 17, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The update calls Horizon 1 a 50MW IT load AI data center at Childress on track for H2 2025. Management presents it as IREN's liquid-cooled capacity for Blackwell GPUs.
Confirmed in the source:
- Horizon 1 is a 50MW IT load deployment at Childress
- Horizon 1 is an AI data center
- Horizon 1 is tied to liquid-cooled capacity for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
- Horizon 1 is on track for H2 2025 commissioning/delivery
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1878848/000187884825000037/aprilmonthlyupdatevf.htm) in full (21,129 characters, retrieved October 16, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms iren 8-K exhibit (aprilmonthlyupdatevf.htm)
Quote: “Horizon 1 (50MW IT load) on track for H2 2025 commissioning”
delays IREN 10-K filed 2025-08-28
Quote: “Childress Horizon 1 (Texas, USA) 75 N/A Under construction”
delays iren 8-K exhibit (irenreportsq3fy26results.htm)
Quote: “2026 expansion to 480MW on track o Horizon 1-4 on track for delivery by year-end”