IREN Ltd's stock soared 6.58% during Thursday's trading session, as the company announced a major strategic partnership with NVIDIA and a significant AI cloud contract that overshadowed weaker-than-expected quarterly results.
The surge was driven by NVIDIA's commitment to invest up to $2.1 billion in IREN through a share purchase agreement, granting the chipmaker a five-year right to buy up to 30 million ordinary shares at $70 per share. Additionally, the companies revealed a $3.4 billion, five-year AI infrastructure cloud services contract for managed GPU cloud services.
Under the broader partnership, NVIDIA and IREN plan to support deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA DSX-aligned AI infrastructure across IREN's global data center pipeline, with future deployments expected to focus on IREN's 2-gigawatt Sweetwater campus in Texas. These developments provided strong positive catalysts that offset investor concerns about IREN's third-quarter revenue of $144.8 million, which missed analyst estimates, and a net loss of $247.8 million.
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