IREN completes acquisition of Mirantis

The deal closed with about 12.6 million IREN shares plus roughly $40 million in cash, restricted stock units and other consideration, adding Mirantis software capabilities to IREN's AI cloud platform.

Summary

IREN has closed its acquisition of cloud software provider Mirantis, issuing about 12.6 million ordinary shares fixed at signing and providing cash, restricted stock units and other consideration of about $40 million as of closing. The company said the deal adds software for AI workload orchestration, monitoring and customer support to its owned data centers and compute platform, broadening its ability to serve hyperscalers, enterprises and AI developers across bare metal and managed cloud services. Mirantis brings more than 1,500 enterprise customers, is an inaugural partner of the NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative, and will continue developing and supporting its open-source k0rdent AI platform.

Terms & Concepts
  • AI workload orchestration: Software used to schedule, manage and scale artificial intelligence computing tasks across infrastructure.
  • Bare metal: A service model that gives customers direct access to physical servers rather than virtualized resources.
  • Restricted stock units: Equity compensation that grants shares once specified conditions such as time or performance requirements are met.