IREN Appoints Anthony Lewis as Chief Capital Officer to Lead Capital Markets Strategy

SYDNEY, July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) today announced the appointment of Anthony Lewis as Chief Capital Officer, a newly established role responsible for overseeing the Company's capital markets activity.

Mr. Lewis will lead the development of IREN's capital structure and financing strategy as the Company evaluates a range of AI infrastructure investments and associated funding requirements.

Mr. Lewis brings more than two decades of experience in financial markets, including 22 years at Macquarie Group, a global financial services and asset management firm with a market capitalization of more than $50 billion and operations in 31 markets, where he most recently served as Co-Treasurer, responsible for global funding, liquidity and capital management.

"Anthony's experience across funding, capital management, and investor engagement will be important as we align our financial strategy with growth opportunities in AI and compute infrastructure," said Daniel Roberts, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of IREN.

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About IREN

IREN is a vertically integrated data center business powering the future of Bitcoin, AI and beyond utilizing 100% renewable energy. Strategically located in renewable-rich, fiber-connected regions across the U.S. and Canada, IREN's large-scale, grid-connected facilities are purpose-built for the next generation of power-dense computing applications.

• Power & Land Portfolio: 2,910MW of grid-connected power secured across >2,000 acres in the U.S. and Canada, with an additional multi-gigawatt development pipeline.
• Next-Generation Data Centers: 810MW of operating data centers underpinning three verticals: Bitcoin Mining, AI Cloud Services and AI Data Centers.
• Bitcoin Mining: one of the world's largest and lowest-cost Bitcoin producers with 50 EH/s of installed self-mining capacity.
• AI Cloud Services: delivering high performance cloud compute to AI customers with 1,896 NVIDIA H100 & H200 GPUs.
• AI Data Centers: end-to-end design, construction and operation of data center infrastructure tailored for AI workloads, with up to 50MW (IT load) liquid cooled capacity scheduled for delivery in 2025.
  
  

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