Center Registry · Texas

Childress

IREN · Childress, Childress County, Texas

Verified by Center RegistryChecked against 4 sources, including primary filings and releases
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200 MW
Critical IT planned
50 MW
Energized today
2025-Q4
First power
ERCOT
Grid region · location approximate
In brief

What makes it notable.

  1. A grid-only site on a 345 kV ERCOT Panhandle interconnection with no on-site generation, where IREN, a bitcoin operator turned AI cloud, owns the GPU fleet itself.
  2. Power capacity has been raised to 750 MW, with 50 MW operating today, 200 MW critical planned, and first power in the fourth quarter of 2025.
  3. The GPUs are NVIDIA GB300 systems bought from Dell. Horizons 2 through 4 are in late-stage construction, and their delivery dates are being renegotiated after a customer-requested network design change.
Deal anatomy

Six layers, and who holds each.

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Power
ERCOT (Panhandle)
Site and build
IREN (miner → AI cloud)
Compute
NVIDIA GB300 (IREN-owned)
Cloud operator
IREN Cloud
Anchor tenant
Members
Capital
Members
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Timeline

From here to full build.

  1. 2025-Q4First power
  2. Nov 2026Today
  3. Not fixed: Microsoft-requested network design change, delivery dates being renegotiatedFull buildoutNov 2026
The detail

Each party's role.

Power

ERCOT (Panhandle). 345 kV grid interconnection (grid-only, no on-site generation)

Site and build

IREN (miner → AI cloud). Bitcoin operator turned AI cloud

Compute

NVIDIA GB300 (IREN-owned). IREN-owned GPU fleet (~$5.8B from Dell), not tenant-supplied

Cloud operator

IREN Cloud. Neocloud operator

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Nearby in the buildout.

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Sources

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