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IREN's two-gigawatt Sweetwater Hub received conditional ERCOT status on September 8, advancing a major AI-data-center power project, and the tape moved with it — IREN closed +5.04% and the wider neocloud lane +6.3% at the median with nine of ten members up. This matters to the power thesis specifically because an interconnection decision is a named trigger condition for it: the campaign asks to be re-read early on a material interconnection decision, and conditional ERCOT status on two gigawatts is exactly that. The caution is in the word conditional — status is not energisation, and the campaign's own discipline is that future contracted capacity is not delivered output. Treat this as the interconnection leg advancing, not as power delivered.

Takeaway

IREN's two-gigawatt Sweetwater Hub received conditional ERCOT status on September 8, advancing a major AI-data-center power project, and the tape moved with it — IREN closed +5.04% and the wider neocloud lane +6.3% at the median with nine of ten members up. This matters to the power thesis specifically because an interconnection decision is a named trigger condition for it: the campaign asks to be re-read early on a material interconnection decision, and conditional ERCOT status on two gigawatts is exactly that. The caution is in the word conditional — status is not energisation, and the campaign's own discipline is that future contracted capacity is not delivered output. Treat this as the interconnection leg advancing, not as power delivered.