🌐📊 Less than 2% of power, $500M ARR — why IREN’s comment matters more than it sounds

Daniel Roberts made a statement that deserves to be unpacked carefully:

Less than 2% of IREN’s power capacity can generate roughly $500 million in annual recurring revenue, and the company has already secured 3 GW of power.

This isn’t a throwaway metric. It’s a structural signal.

The key insight isn’t the $500M number.

It’s the non-linear relationship between power and revenue.

If a sub-2% slice of capacity can already support that level of ARR, then revenue is not constrained by total megawatts in a simple, linear way. It’s constrained by what that power is pointed at.

That’s the real shift happening here.

IREN is increasingly better understood not as a “miner,” but as a power-first compute platform. Power is the scarce input. Compute workloads are the variable output.

At 3 GW of secured capacity, the company is sitting on infrastructure that can flex across use cases:

Bitcoin mining when it’s the highest marginal return,

AI and high-density compute when pricing and demand justify it,

and hybrid strategies as markets evolve.

What the CEO’s comment quietly implies is this:

high-value compute workloads dramatically increase the revenue density per megawatt.

In that context, the remaining ~98% of capacity isn’t idle potential — it’s optionality.

That optionality is hard to replicate.

Power contracts, land, grid interconnection, cooling, and regulatory approval take years, not quarters. By the time demand shows up, the real competition is already locked out.

This is why valuation frameworks for these companies are changing.

They’re no longer just exposed to Bitcoin cycles.

They’re leveraged to the long-term growth of compute demand itself.

The question going forward isn’t whether IREN can monetize power.

It’s how aggressively the market reprices power assets once compute revenue per megawatt keeps stepping higher.

If less than 2% can already support $500M in ARR,

how should the remaining capacity be valued — today?

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