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IREN x Perplexity (Blackwell Ultra cloud)

Multi-year agreement under which Perplexity runs AI workloads, including the models and agents behind Perplexity Computer, on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs at an IREN data center campus on IREN AI Cloud. Contract value, term, GPU count and campus were not disclosed.

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Announced
2026-10-30
1 day ago
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IRENtechnology provider

IREN (formerly Iris Energy) is a NASDAQ-listed operator of renewable-powered data centers, founded in Sydney in 2018, that has expanded from bitcoin mining into a large-scale NVIDIA GPU cloud. Its IREN AI Cloud rents H100, H200, B200, B300 and liquid-cooled GB300 NVL72 systems from campuses in Childress, Texas and British Columbia, and it holds Preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner status. In November 2025 it signed a roughly $9.7B, five-year AI cloud contract with Microsoft and has announced GPU purchases toward a target fleet of about 150,000 GPUs.

HQSydney, Australiairendering.net3 partnerships

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Sources (2)

  1. https://iren.com/resources/blog/perplexity-and-iren-powering-fast-trustworthy-ai-at-scale · 2026-10-30
  2. https://fourweekmba.com/ai-iren-names-perplexity-computer-as-a-blackwell-ultra-tenant/ · 2026-10-30

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