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The biggest overlooked insight from $IREN earnings call is that the company is preserving the option to buy cheaper GPUs Near the end of the call, Jefferies asked whether GPU purchase prices might rise enough to eliminate today's attractive rental economics. Daniel Roberts gave a rather unexpected answer. IREN has deliberately avoided purchasing all the GPUs it expects to need next year. Why? Because if financing remains tight and datacenter construction keeps slipping, GPU prices could actually fall. Think about that for a moment. The conventional AI bull thesis says GPUs are scarce, so buy as many as possible. IREN's argument is more sophisticated: the economic value of a GPU depends on having somewhere to power and operate it If the industry has more chips available than deployable power and datacenter infrastructure, the scarcity premium can migrate from the GPUs toward the power connections. Here is management explicitly positioning for the possibility that financial scarcity makes one part of the AI supply chain cheaper while another remains scarce. IREN is effectively trying to own the long duration infrastructure option without committing prematurely to every generation of depreciating compute. This is not the first tine the management takes a non consensual direction. In the recent past, they avoided signing too many deals, and in retrospect it now seems a smart move (look at Nscale).

AFTERMARKET SHARE RAID Goodman and $DLR just bid for ~10% of NEXTDC in an "opportunistic" transaction at a 45% premium. Implies a mid-teens multiple of EBIDTA once you add the debt to build their contracted pipeline. For context WULF is guiding to $1.5B in normalized NOI for Lake Mariner + Justified. Call it $1.4B after corporate costs. At15x implies $21B of enterprise value. Finishing the build may take $8B of net debt, which leaves $13B for equity vs. today's $5B market cap. Would be $26/share, not counting convert dilution. WULF's timeline is also better defined. About half of their contracted MW is targeted live by Q1 2027, whereas NXT just pushed M3 out into 2028. NXT +73% this week and hiring advisors to try to prevent a takeover. For weaker balance sheet names, I recommend hiring the advisors before your shares get sniped like this.

The Flywheel vs Treadmill — $IREN vs $NBIS: It's important to remember that over the long arc of a credit cycle, and specifically in a high-capex environment, terminal value goes to the player that manages its capital stack most efficiently. On that basis, it's worth comparing two diametrically opposed strategies. It's also important having a healthy debate about which stands the test of time, so I welcome everyone's opinion. Both $IREN and $NBIS buy the same chips but run very different capital strategies. The difference exists beneath the chip layer. $IREN owning its land, power and buildings outright is a structural advantage for building a flywheel. That layer doesn't depreciate, and once a building is stabilized it can be refinanced — equity comes back out and funds the next site. Rinse and repeat. $NBIS rents its buildings (though it's starting to build its own), and has only its GPUs and the contracts on them to offer as collateral. When the chips melt there's nothing underneath holding value, and financing the next buildout gets harder each cycle. Oversimplifying but it's easy to see IREN as a long megawatts trade and NBIS as long GPU residual value. To be clear, both are long the latter but IREN has the asset base that doesn't decay. To be clear, the chip market is strong right now and NBIS funds its fleet fine today — prepayments, operating cash flow, securitization. But these chips lose value every year no matter whose rack they sit in. That part is identical for both companies. Today's market is pricing appropriately the execution risk of $IREN and also the breakneck acceleration from $NBIS based on their "asset-lite" model. IREN's floor steps up every time a new site turns on. In $NBIS has to outrun its primary asset base from depreciating just to stay where it's at. The truth is chips are going to melt for everyone. The question is what you're standing on while they do. Also.. NO CRYING IN THE CASINO! @brianfry01 @_Sgr_A_Star @bitcoinbutcher1 @jiahanjimliu @SmallCapSnipa @MarkosAAIG @BitcoinAIGuy

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$IREN: ~35 GW GLOBAL PIPELINE UNDER DEVELOPMENT