Installed self-mining capacity reached 40 EH/s
Company: IREN - Project: Childress
The claim, verbatim
IREN increased its installed self-mining capacity from 37 EH/s to 40 EH/s at 15 J/TH efficiency, after commissioning additional mining hardware in its Childress Phase 4 data centers.
Source (primary)
iren 8-K exhibit (pressrelease-40ehsupdate.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “IREN has increased its installed self-mining capacity from 37 EH/s to 40 EH/s (15 J/TH efficiency), following the commissioning of additional mining hardware within its Childress Phase 4 (150MW) data centers.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 17, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
IREN's April 16, 2025 press release states that installed self-mining capacity rose from 37 EH/s to 40 EH/s at 15 J/TH efficiency after additional hardware was commissioned at Childress Phase 4.
Confirmed in the source:
- IREN increased its installed self-mining capacity from 37 EH/s to 40 EH/s
- The 40 EH/s capacity is at 15 J/TH efficiency
- The increase followed the commissioning of additional mining hardware in IREN's Childress Phase 4 data centers
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1878848/000187884825000034/pressrelease-40ehsupdate.htm) in full (14,101 characters, retrieved October 16, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms iren 8-K exhibit (pressrelease-40ehsupdate.htm)
Quote: “IREN has increased its installed self-mining capacity from 37 EH/s to 40 EH/s (15 J/TH efficiency), following the commissioning of additional mining hardware within its Childress Phase 4 (150MW) data centers.”