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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- IREN (Iris Energy)
- Address and locality
- Childress · Childress County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 750 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000811
What the source record says
SEPARATE SITE from IREN Sweetwater (Nolan/Fisher County — do not conflate). Full 750 MW figure is total campus transmission capacity; the AI/Microsoft Horizon 1–4 build-out comprises four 50 MW IT (75 MW gross) liquid-cooled data halls = 200 MW IT total, targeting end-2026 delivery. Horizon 1 (50 MW IT / 75 MW gross) energized Q4 2025 — operational; Horizons 2–4 remain under construction as of mid-2026. Coordinates approximate (county seat area). Site is a 576-acre freehold parcel with on-site 345 kV substations connecting directly to ERCOT. Investment for Horizon 1–4 reported as $300–350M (range; not a firm figure — omitted from investmentUsd). Microsoft contract ($9.7B total, 5-year through ~2031) covers NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPU cloud services; 20% upfront prepayment funded capex. Dell Technologies hardware supply agreement: $5.8B. IREN also holds a separate NVIDIA cloud services contract at Childress. Rack density 130–200 kW per rack; projected PUE 1.05–1.10. Approximately 25 current full-time local employees, 50+ expected at 750 MW full build-out; over 500 contractors during construction phase (approximate reported figures — omitted from jobs numeric fields). IREN Community Grants Program distributes $250,000 annually to the Childress area.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025 · reported under construction
Horizon 1 (75 MW gross / 50 MW IT) announced March 11, 2025; construction underway at existing Childress campus
- 2025 · reported under construction
IREN signs $9.7B five-year Microsoft GPU cloud contract November 2025; Horizons 1–4 at Childress targeted for end-2026 full deployment
- 2025 · reported operational
Horizon 1 (50 MW IT / 75 MW gross) energized Q4 2025 — IREN's first purpose-built AI data center; Horizons 2–4 remain under construction
Sources and attribution
- IREN plans 75MW liquid-cooled AI data center in Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- Childress Data Center — 750MW AI-Optimised Facility · IREN (official)
- IREN Secures $9.7bn AI Cloud Contract with Microsoft · GlobeNewsWire
- IREN: Horizon 1 Data Center · Baxtel
- IREN continues developing data center campus in Childress · NewsChannel 10 (Amarillo)
- Microsoft signs $9.7bn cloud capacity deal with IREN · Data Center Dynamics
- Northwise Project — IREN Stock Childress: Inside the 750MW Texas AI Factory
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID iren-horizon-childress-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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