{"id":259767,"date":"2025-11-03T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:35:08","slug":"iren-lands-14-8-billion-microsoft-deal-for-ai-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259767\/","title":{"rendered":"Iren lands $14.8 billion Microsoft deal for AI cloud services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has signed an approximately $US9.7 billion ($14.8 billion) deal to purchase AI cloud capacity from Iren, becoming the Australian company\u2019s largest customer.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year agreement will provide Microsoft access to Nvidia accelerator systems in Texas built using the GB300 architecture for AI workloads and includes a 20 per cent prepayment, Iren said in a statement on Monday. Sydney-based Iren also said it\u2019s agreed to purchase the requisite GPUs and related equipment for US$5.8 billion from Dell.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has signed an approximately $US9.7 billion ($14.8 billion) deal to purchase AI cloud capacity from Iren, becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-259767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259767","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=259767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}