IREN to buy Blackwell systems from Dell for about $1.6 billion

May 26 (Reuters) - Data ‌center operator IREN said ​on ​Tuesday it has agreed to buy Nvidia's air-cooled Blackwell systems from Dell for about $1.6 ‌billion, as it aims to bring more capacity ⁠online to keep up with soaring AI demand.

The deal is ‌to service its previously announced ‌five-year $3.4 billion cloud AI service contract with Dell, an AI server maker, IREN said in a statement.

• ​The Blackwell systems will be set up across existing data centers at IREN's Childress, Texas, campus, ⁠and are expected to be ready by early 2027.

• Upon commissioning, the ​contract is expected to increase IREN's annualized run-rate revenue (ARR) to $4.4 billion from $3.7 billion, reflecting ongoing ​progress in bringing GPU capacity ‌online.

• The purchase price of $1.6 billion covers all equipment and services, including GPUs, servers, ⁠storage, networking, ancillary equipment, integration services and warranties, with payments made after delivery, IREN said.

• "Securing capacity and accelerating commissioning are ⁠our top priorities in a market where time-to-compute is everything," ​according to IREN Co-CEO Daniel Roberts.

• Separately, Nvidia said earlier this month that it would invest up to $2.1 billion in IREN, ‌as part of a broader deal to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of infrastructure.

• ‌In November, Microsoft struck a $9.7 billion deal with IREN ⁠that includes access to ‌Nvidia's advanced chips.

(Reporting ​by Anuja Bharat Mistry in Bengaluru and Juby Babu in Mexico City; editing by Alan ‌Barona)

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