200MW expansion at Childress data center in H2 2024
Company: IREN - Project: Childress
What the later record shows
Delivered on time · happened December 31, 2024
IREN's list of 2024 achievements says Childress expanded from 20MW to 350MW, an increase larger than the promised 200MW. No passage separately confirms completion of the specific 200MW tranche, so confidence is medium.
“Data center expansion: 17x expansion at Childress from 20MW to 350MW”
2025-01-06 · iren 8-K exhibit (irendec2024monthlyupdate.htm) View cached copy (2026-10-21)Live source ↗
Checked November 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
As part of reaching 20 EH/s in H2 2024, IREN plans a 200MW expansion at its existing Childress data center. The decision on this expansion will be made during 2024, subject to market conditions, shareholder value and funding availability.
Source (primary)
iren 8-K exhibit (ef20022447_ex99-1.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “200MW expansion at existing Childress data center”
How we checked this
Checked on November 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The release lists the 200MW Childress expansion under the H2 2024 (20 EH/s) plan. Its footnote says the decision will be made during 2024 based on the stated factors.
Confirmed in the source:
- IREN listed a 200MW expansion at its existing Childress data center as part of its H2 2024 (20 EH/s) expansion
- IREN said the decision on the Childress expansion will be made during 2024
- IREN said that decision will take into consideration market conditions, shareholder value and funding availability
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1878848/000114036124009334/ef20022447_ex99-1.htm) in full (12,720 characters, retrieved November 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms iren 8-K exhibit (ef20022447_ex99-1.htm)
Quote: “200MW expansion at existing Childress data center”
confirms iren 8-K exhibit (irendec2024monthlyupdate.htm)
Quote: “Data center expansion: 17x expansion at Childress from 20MW to 350MW”