IREN Jumps as Anthropic Named Mystery Cloud Customer
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IREN shares jumped after reports named Anthropic as its unannounced multiyear cloud customer; neither company has confirmed the deal.
The reported deal moved the stock
The move followed a report from The Information saying that Anthropic is the mystery AI cloud customer IREN referenced during its August earnings call, when CEO Daniel Roberts disclosed new multiyear cloud contracts with Cohere, Prometheus, Perplexity, Figure AI, Fal AI and Higgsfield AI, plus "a leading frontier AI lab" whose name could not yet be disclosed.
Neither Anthropic nor IREN has commented on the reported partnership.
Why an Anthropic contract matters
According to The Information, as relayed by TradingView, Anthropic's push to rapidly expand its computing capacity increasingly depends on current and former bitcoin miners such as Hut 8, TeraWulf, IREN and Nscale.
The Information also reports that Anthropic is pushing its cloud partners to accelerate the construction of new data centers.
Adding Anthropic to IREN's customer roster would significantly boost the company and potentially strengthen its position as a provider of AI cloud infrastructure as demand for computing capacity surges.
A counterweight: legacy data center criticism
The rally comes against a skeptical backdrop. TradingView reports that IREN stock came under pressure in the past week after research firm SemiAnalysis raised concerns about the operational quality of the company's legacy data centers in British Columbia.
In a series of posts on X on Wednesday, SemiAnalysis said it had heard reports from multiple customers and end users about IREN's sites in Prince George and Mackenzie, describing them as the "#1 worst site in the industry" according to users.
That tension between reported hyperscale demand and criticized legacy facilities frames the stock's next test.
Retail sentiment and what comes next
IREN was the top trending ticker on Stocktwits at the time of writing, with 'bullish' retail sentiment and several traders expecting the stock to push higher on Monday, TradingView reports. Some traders urged caution, with one writing that IREN "needs to confirm deal or this is just a pump."
Seeking Alpha's report on the premarket gain underscores the market's focus on confirmation.
For context, IREN remains the weakest performer in the neocloud group alongside CoreWeave and Nebius, with shares down nearly 7% year to date, so confirmation of the Anthropic relationship would be a significant catalyst.