Microsoft 5-year AI Cloud services contract
Company: IREN - Project: Childress
The claim, verbatim
IREN has a five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services contract with Microsoft announced in November 2025 for four 50-megawatt AI Cloud deployments at Childress, Texas
Source (primary)
IREN delivers first AI data center to Microsoft as short interest hits 26% - scanx.trade (-, news_article)
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Quote: “advancing a five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services contract announced in November 2025”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states the five-year, $9.7 billion Microsoft cloud services contract was announced in November 2025 and covers four 50-megawatt deployments at IREN's Childress, Texas campus.
Confirmed in the source:
- IREN has a five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services contract with Microsoft announced in November 2025
- The contract covers four 50-megawatt AI Cloud deployments at Childress, Texas
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://scanx.trade/stock-market-news/companies/iren-shares-jump-10-microsoft-accepts-first-ai-data-center/48180266) in full (24,017 characters, retrieved September 5, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms IREN delivers first AI data center to Microsoft as short interest hits 26% - scanx.trade
Quote: “advancing a five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services contract announced in November 2025”