Building one of the first vertically integrated AI cloud services platforms

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打造首批垂直整合的人工智能云服务平台之一

Macquarie10/02/2026updated 10/17/2026

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Macquarie Capital advised IREN on acquiring Mirantis, a cloud infrastructure software provider with over 1,500 enterprise customers and ties to NVIDIA's AI Cloud Ready Initiative. Consideration includes about 12.6 million IREN shares fixed at signing plus cash, RSUs and other items. The deal adds AI workload orchestration, monitoring and enterprise support to IREN's data centre and compute operations, expanding its addressable market and managed services mix.

Institution: Macquarie
Published: 10/02/2026
Research topic: Not explicitly stated
Time horizon: Not explicitly stated

Key arguments

The acquisition adds software, orchestration and enterprise support to IREN's owned data centres and compute, enabling vertically integrated AI cloud services.
Mirantis brings over 1,500 enterprise customers and is an inaugural NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative partner, supporting current and next-generation architectures.
Consideration is about 12.6 million IREN shares fixed at signing plus cash, restricted stock units and other consideration.
The deal expands IREN's addressable market and deepens customer relationships through managed services and software-led solutions.

Key numbers

IREN shares consideration: ~12.6 million
Mirantis enterprise customers: more than 1,500
IREN Nasdaq IPO year: 2021
Mirantis partnership: inaugural NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative partner

Main risks

The consideration's stock component is fixed at signing, leaving value subject to IREN share price movements before closing.
Integrating Mirantis's software and personnel into IREN's platform may not achieve expected differentiation or revenue synergies.
Enterprise adoption of IREN's expanded AI cloud services could be slower than anticipated, affecting addressable market realization.

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As the business scaled, IREN looked to move up the AI value chain and enhance its software, orchestration and enterprise-support layer that would further differentiate the platform, deepen customer relationships and unlock additional revenue opportunities. As a long-standing adviser to IREN since its 2021 Nasdaq IPO, Macquarie Capital was engaged to support IREN’s next phase of growth.

Mirantis is a leading provider of cloud infrastructure software, AI workload orchestration and enterprise support services. It complemented IREN's growth strategy through its deep software engineering expertise, track record serving more than 1,500 enterprise customers globally and role as an inaugural NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative partner supporting current and next-generation architectures.

Macquarie Capital leveraged its deep sector expertise across both digital infrastructure and cloud infrastructure software to advise IREN on the transaction. Our team provided bespoke advice on process control, vertical integration and market positioning. They also ran a bilateral process, coordinated due diligence and commercial negotiations, and delivered rigorous valuation and commercial analysis, including consideration structure and accretion dilution analysis.

Consideration comprised ~12.6 million ordinary IREN shares (fixed at signing) plus cash, restricted stock units and other consideration. The acquisition enhances IREN's capabilities across AI workload orchestration, monitoring and customer support. It also expands its ability to deliver managed services and software-led solutions alongside its owned and operated data centres and compute infrastructure. As a result, it expands IREN’s addressable market opportunity supporting a broader customer base and service mix.

More broadly, the transaction highlights Macquarie Capital’s leadership position at the intersection of AI, software and digital infrastructure.

personnel - including software engineers and support specialists joining IREN

AI Cloud platform spanning data centres, compute and software

Michael Milne Head of Technology, Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications (TMET), APAC Head of Government Advisory, ANZ Macquarie Capital

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