Data Center Atlas
IREN Childress data center campus
Partially operational
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
IREN campus at Childress in the Texas Panhandle with 750 MW of planned gross power capacity on a 576-acre freehold site, connected to the ERCOT grid through IREN-owned on-site substations. It hosts IREN's liquid-cooled Horizon AI cloud buildings, which serve Microsoft under a five-year contract of about $9.7 billion announced in November 2025. Horizon 1, a 50 MW (IT) deployment of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, was delivered to and accepted by Microsoft in August 2026; Horizon 2 was in commissioning and Horizons 3 and 4 in late-stage construction, with delivery targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
Source record as of 2026-08-27 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (1)
IREN Childress data center campus
Partially operational last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Childress, Texas, US. City coordinates from Wikipedia; IREN names the site after Childress but publishes no street address or county. IREN; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); Wikipedia
Use: Ai unspecified, Cloud
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 750 MW | Planned · Campus · Facility | 2026-06-30 | IREN's 10-K lists Childress at 750 MW of total planned power capacity in gross MW. | IREN; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) |
| Power capacity | 50 MW | Operational · Phase · It load · Horizon 1 | 2026-08 | IREN; IREN | |
| Power capacity | 150 MW | Under construction · Phase · It load · Horizons 2-4 | 2026-08-27 | Three 50 MW (IT) deployments; Horizon 2 in commissioning and Horizons 3 and 4 in late-stage construction in August 2026. | IREN; IREN |
| Land area | 576 acres | Acquired · Campus | 2026-06-30 | IREN |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| IREN | Developer | IREN; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) | |
| IREN | Owner | IREN describes the site as freehold and states that it owns its data centers, including the land, grid connections and substations. | IREN; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) |
| IREN | Operator | IREN states that it develops, owns and operates its data centers. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) |
| Microsoft | Tenant | Customer for GPU cloud services delivered from the four Horizon facilities under a five-year agreement of about $9.7 billion. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); IREN |
| NVIDIA | Hardware supplier | Horizon 1 runs NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, which NVIDIA tested for its Exemplar Cloud status. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); IREN |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | Other | Actual | Five-year Microsoft agreement announced, covering the Horizon 1-4 facilities at Childress. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) |
| 2026-08 | Other | Actual | Horizon 1 delivered to and accepted by Microsoft. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); IREN |
| 2026-Q4 | Other | Planned | Targeted phased delivery of Horizons 2-4; grace periods under the Microsoft agreement run from mid-Q4 2026 to the beginning of Q2 2027. | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); IREN |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Direct connection to the ERCOT grid via on-site substations owned by IREN; IREN bought renewable energy certificates covering all of the site's consumption through June 2026. | IREN; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) |
Sources for these details
- Childress Data Center | 750MW AI-Optimised Facility — IREN; publication date not stated
- IREN Ltd Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing); 2026-08-27 · Archived source
- IREN Delivers Horizon 1 to Microsoft and Achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud Status on GB300 NVL72 — IREN; 2026-08-13
- IREN Reports FY26 Results — IREN; 2026-08-27
- IREN Expands AI Cloud Capacity to 150,000 GPUs — IREN; 2026-03-04
- Childress, Texas — Wikipedia; publication date not stated
- Companies
- Developer: IREN (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: IREN (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: IREN (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: IREN (unknown scope) evidence
- Operator: IREN (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Microsoft (unknown scope) evidence
- Hardware Supplier: NVIDIA (unknown scope) evidence
- Hardware Supplier: NVIDIA (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- IREN Ltd Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 evidence row
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) · published 2026-08-27 · Regulatory filing - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 61 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 34.42810, -100.21500
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- Locality reference only
- Scope class
- locality
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- City coordinates from Wikipedia; IREN names the site after Childress but publishes no street address or county.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- a6ebeceb
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childress Data Center | 750MW AI-Optimised Facility Archived copy | IREN Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Owner claim | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | IREN | 03b483a00a51c684278bbd69dcd07d3c9d94a30d9610f68bad74df3fa5069f13Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Childress, Texas Archived copy | Wikipedia Other | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Wikipedia | 9e83a5c1838e907f9bed2040ed0c5736cb8a7adf2d512bb09b64eb5cab301bc3Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| IREN Delivers Horizon 1 to Microsoft and Achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud Status on GB300 NVL72 Archived copy | IREN Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Role: Hardware Supplier, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | IREN | f9dcce40d3aa09c92d9a2cb343faf65450f344c8b3c688f3224e24b1c674c91aFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| IREN Expands AI Cloud Capacity to 150,000 GPUs Archived copy | IREN Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Imported: Status | source-terms-not-recorded | IREN | d42dc43396e968686a51f5325201816385bbc9a1b6a165a9961ba178d070ba03Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| IREN Ltd Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 Archived copy | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) Regulatory filing | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Hardware Supplier, Operator claim, Owner claim, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (IREN filing) | dbb1cee13c74605a53df298963ae9ce0216eccb165d9c1af49ba8c0ac428281cFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| IREN Reports FY26 Results Archived copy | IREN Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other | source-terms-not-recorded | IREN | 14a01af053cf03eb14b35862b6762c1a3ceffa0c27175f355cb15286607e01abFactual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). IREN Childress data center campus [site vcc-site-b80c969b486b2844a8d9]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-b80c969b486b2844a8d9/
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