Jul 21, 2026 – 12.44pmIren, the data centre operator and bitcoin miner founded by Australian brothers Daniel and Will Roberts, has secured $4 billion in new contracts to sell artificial intelligence services, as retail investors pile into its shares at a faster rate than those of tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon.San Francisco-based AI search engine Perplexity has been signed up as a customer, along with other US companies, including robotics company Figure AI and image generator Fal AI, adding up to US$2.8 billion ($4 billion) worth of new deals.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles