Does Anyone Know More About IREN

x.com ^ | 7/24/2026 | econjack

[econjack]

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to data centers seems to be water use. I just saw this:

"One of the most common questions we get about AI data centers is how much water do they use? Fair question. Older designs cooled servers by evaporating water and people naturally assume ours do too. They don't.

IREN's sites are different. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling in a closed loop. Same idea as a car radiator or a fridge. Fill it once and the water just goes round and round.

Over the life of a 200MW site, the initial fill plus every top-up averages out to about as much water each year as 3 households.

Not a town. Not a suburb. Not a street... 3 houses.

Water matters in the regions we build in. Which is precisely why our cooling barely uses any."

It's an Australian company, and I haven't found much info on it.

[FreedomPoster]

You think so, eh?

I think not, for a typical installation. And I’ve actually been in data centers.

[steve8714]

Deo would make the most sense.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So you choose name calling.

Like I said, you do you.

[Eli Kopter]

Peek. Not Peak. Freudian slip I guess.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Boiler Plate]

It all depends on whether the “Chillers”, the outdoor equipment, are water cooled or air cooled. Water cooled chillers use less electricity, but use water to aid in the cooling. Air cooled use almost only electricity with some loses of chilled water in maintenance.

[Dr. Sivana]

Sounds like they use some kind of chillwater system. The problem is those systems require a refrigerant plant, which means they will need yet more power.

I have actually been applying for work at the Iren Data Centers going up. They like to build in locations that already have a lot of power, often a combination of wind and gas, in remote areas in red states.