IREN Ltd. ($IREN) said it has begun delivering 1.4 gigawatts (GW) of power to its Sweetwater 1 data center site in Texas, marking a key milestone in the company’s push to scale AI-focused cloud infrastructure as competition intensifies for scarce, grid-connected capacity.
The company announced on May 1 (UTC) that the site’s high-voltage substation has been successfully connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, enabling initial power delivery for the first phase of the broader Sweetwater campus. Sweetwater 1 is part of a planned 2 GW development, with electricity… Read more







