{"id":163276,"date":"2025-09-23T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:55:07","slug":"iren-founders-660m-richer-in-a-month-thanks-to-ai-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163276\/","title":{"rendered":"Iren founders $660m richer in a month thanks to AI gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan and Will Roberts, the Australian brothers behind Nasdaq-listed Iren, have added more than $660 million to their on-paper wealth in the last month, thanks to booming investor interest in their timely pivot to selling artificial intelligence infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney-headquartered company began life chasing a different tech boom, providing the tech-packed data centres needed to mine bitcoin. However, when the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom took off they began aggressively acquiring Nvidia chips and converted the data centres into so-called AI factories.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan and Will Roberts, the Australian brothers behind Nasdaq-listed Iren, have added more than $660 million to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-163276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}