Iris Vitality Points 20 EH/s Enlargement Replace

Iris Vitality Restricted (dba IREN) (IREN) (along with its subsidiaries, “IREN” or “the Firm”), a number one next-generation information heart enterprise powering the way forward for Bitcoin, AI and past, as we speak offered a enterprise replace.

IREN is happy to offer an replace on its growth to twenty EH/s in 2024:

• H1 2024 (10 EH/s):
  • Working hashrate now elevated to 7 EH/s
  • Remaining 3 EH/s to be commissioned via H1 2024
• H2 2024 (20 EH/s):
  • 10 EH/s of recent Bitmain T21 miners1 secured through fastened value contracts
  • 200MW growth at current Childress information heart

About IREN

IREN is a number one next-generation information heart enterprise powering the way forward for Bitcoin, AI and past using 100% renewable vitality.

• Bitcoin Mining: offering safety to the Bitcoin community, increasing to twenty EH/s in 2024. Operations since 2019.
• AI Cloud Companies: offering cloud compute to AI prospects, increasing to 816 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Operations since 2024.
• Subsequent-Era Information Facilities: 220MW of working information facilities, increasing to 460MW in 2024. Particularly designed and purpose-built infrastructure for high-performance and power-dense computing purposes.
• Expertise: know-how stack for efficiency optimization of AI Cloud Companies, Bitcoin Mining and vitality buying and selling operations.
• Growth Portfolio: 2,160MW of secured energy capability throughout North America, >1,000 acre property portfolio and extra improvement pipeline.
• 100% Renewable Vitality: targets websites with low-cost & underutilized renewable vitality and helps electrical grids and native communities.

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These forward-looking statements are primarily based on administration’s present expectations and beliefs. These statements are neither guarantees nor ensures, however contain recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different vital components which will trigger IREN’s precise outcomes, efficiency or achievements to be materially totally different from any future outcomes efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by the ahead trying statements, together with, however not restricted to: Bitcoin value and international foreign money trade charge fluctuations; IREN’s means to acquire extra capital on commercially cheap phrases and in a well timed method to satisfy our capital wants and facilitate its growth plans; the phrases of any future financing or any refinancing, restructuring or modification to the phrases of any future financing, which might require IREN to adjust to onerous covenants or restrictions, and its means to service its debt obligations; IREN’s means to efficiently execute on its progress methods and working plans, together with its means to proceed to develop its current information heart websites and its means to diversify into the marketplace for Excessive Efficiency Computing (“HPC”) options; IREN’s restricted expertise with respect to new markets it has entered or might search to enter, together with the marketplace for HPC options; expectations with respect to the continued profitability, viability, operability, safety, reputation and public perceptions of the Bitcoin community; expectations with respect to the profitability, viability, operability, safety, reputation and public perceptions of any HPC options that IREN gives; IREN’s means to safe and retain prospects on commercially cheap phrases or in any respect, notably because it pertains to its technique to increase into HPC options; IREN’s restricted expertise with respect to new markets it has entered or might search to enter, together with the marketplace for HPC options; expectations with respect to the continued profitability, viability, operability, safety, reputation and public perceptions of the Bitcoin community; expectations with respect to the profitability, viability, operability, safety, reputation and public perceptions of any HPC options IREN gives; IREN’s means to safe and retain prospects on commercially cheap phrases or in any respect, notably because it pertains to its technique to increase into HPC options; IREN’s means to handle counterparty threat (together with credit score threat) related to any present or future prospects and different counterparties; IREN’s means to safe renewable vitality, renewable vitality certificates, energy capability, services and websites on commercially cheap phrases or in any respect; the chance that any present or future prospects or counterparties might terminate, default on or underperform their contractual obligations; Bitcoin world hashrate fluctuations; delays related to, or failure to acquire or full, allowing approvals, grid connections and different improvement actions customary for greenfield or brownfield infrastructure initiatives; our reliance on energy utilities suppliers, third get together mining swimming pools, exchanges, banks, insurance coverage suppliers and our means to take care of relationships with such events; expectations concerning availability and pricing of electrical energy; IREN’s participation and talent to efficiently take part in demand response services and different load administration packages run, operated or provided by electrical energy community operators, regulators or electrical energy market operators; the provision, reliability and/or price of electrical energy provide, {hardware} and electrical and information heart infrastructure, together with with respect to any electrical energy outages and any legal guidelines and laws which will prohibit the electrical energy provide obtainable to IREN; any variance between the precise working efficiency of IREN’s {hardware} achieved in comparison with the nameplate efficiency together with hashrate; IREN’s means to curtail its electrical energy consumption and/or monetize electrical energy relying on market situations, together with modifications in Bitcoin mining economics and prevailing electrical energy costs; actions undertaken by electrical energy community and market operators, regulators, governments or communities within the areas through which IREN operates; the provision, suitability, reliability and value of web connections at IREN’s services; IREN’s means to safe extra {hardware}, together with {hardware} for Bitcoin mining and HPC options it could provide, on commercially cheap phrases or in any respect, and any delays or reductions within the provide of such {hardware} or will increase in the price of procuring such {hardware}; expectations with respect to the helpful life and obsolescence of {hardware} (together with {hardware} for Bitcoin mining in addition to {hardware} for different purposes, together with HPC options IREN might provide); delays, will increase in prices or reductions within the provide of kit utilized in IREN’s operations; IREN’s means to function in an evolving regulatory surroundings; IREN’s means to efficiently function and preserve its property and infrastructure; reliability and efficiency of IREN’s infrastructure in comparison with expectations; malicious assaults on IREN’s property, infrastructure or IT methods; IREN’s means to take care of in good standing the working and different permits and licenses required for its operations and enterprise; IREN means to acquire, preserve, shield and implement its mental property rights and different confidential info; whether or not the secular developments IREN expects to drive progress in its enterprise materialize to the diploma it expects them to, or in any respect; the prevalence of any environmental, well being and security incidents at IREN’s websites, and any materials prices referring to environmental, well being and security necessities or liabilities; harm to our property and infrastructure and the chance that any insurance coverage IREN maintains might not totally cowl all potential exposures; ongoing proceedings referring to the default by two of IREN’s wholly-owned particular objective autos underneath restricted recourse gear financing services; ongoing securities litigation relating partly to the default; and any future litigation, claims and/or regulatory investigations, and the prices, bills, use of sources, diversion of administration time and efforts, legal responsibility and damages which will consequence therefrom; our failure to adjust to any legal guidelines together with the anti-corruption legal guidelines of the US and varied worldwide jurisdictions; any failure of our compliance and threat administration strategies; any legal guidelines, laws and moral requirements which will relate to IREN’s enterprise, together with people who relate to Bitcoin and the Bitcoin mining business and people who relate to another options we might provide (equivalent to HPC options), together with laws associated to information privateness, cybersecurity and the storage, use or processing of data; any mental property infringement and product legal responsibility claims; our means to draw, encourage and retain senior administration and certified staff; elevated dangers to our world operations together with, however not restricted to, political instability, acts of terrorism, theft and vandalism, cyberattacks and different cybersecurity incidents and surprising regulatory and financial sanctions modifications, amongst different issues; local weather change, extreme climate situations and pure and man-made disasters which will materially adversely have an effect on our enterprise, monetary situation and outcomes of operations; the continued results of COVID-19 or another outbreak of an infectious illness and any governmental or business measures taken in response; our means to stay aggressive in dynamic and quickly evolving industries; harm to our model and status; expectations referring to Environmental, Social and Governance points or reporting; the prices of being a public firm; and different vital components mentioned underneath the caption “Danger Components” in IREN’s annual report on Type 20-F filed with the SEC on September 13, 2023 as such components could also be up to date occasionally in its different filings with the SEC, accessible on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov and the Investor Relations part of IREN’s web site at https://buyers.iren.com.

These and different vital components might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these indicated by the forward-looking statements made on this press launch. Any forward-looking assertion that IREN makes on this press launch speaks solely as of the date of such assertion. Besides as required by regulation, IREN disclaims any obligation to replace or revise, or to publicly announce any replace or revision to, any of the forward-looking statements, whether or not on account of new info, future occasions or in any other case.

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1 Comprised of miner buy choices with Bitmain for 9 EH/s of T21 miners plus extra miner purchases of 1 EH/s. Selections with respect to Childress growth and exercising all, some or not one of the miner buy choices might be made throughout 2024, considering market situations, shareholder worth and funding availability. As well as, the Firm retains flexibility to make the most of miner buy choices for functions of upgrading some or all of its current fleet.

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