# Daniel Roberts

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Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Daniel Roberts (Co-founder & Co-CEO, IREN) talking, from an interview on All-In published Mar 23, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder & Co-CEO, IREN
- About: Scaling IREN’s GPU fleet to 150,000 NVIDIA GPUs for AI training and inference.
- Company: [IREN](https://realalpha.app/companies/#iren)
- On X: https://x.com/danroberts0101

## What Daniel Roberts said

- [West Texas renewables can power data centers at the source](https://realalpha.app/s/west-texas-renewables-can-power-data-centers-at-the-source/)
  All-In · Mar 23, 2026 · 3 min
  > “So you go and locate to the source of low cost excess renewable energy, monetize it into this digital commodity, export it at the speed of light as tokens.” — Daniel Roberts · [1:26:29](https://realalpha.app/v/-JBhTBu9ZbA/?t=5189)
- [IREN has 4.5 gigawatts, but construction sets the pace](https://realalpha.app/s/iren-has-4-5-gigawatts-but-construction-sets-the-pace/)
  All-In · Mar 23, 2026 · 4 min
  > “So we've got four and a half gigawatts. For context, that's almost as much power annually as the Bay Area uses in its entirety.” — Daniel Roberts · [1:21:55](https://realalpha.app/v/-JBhTBu9ZbA/?t=4915)

## The episode

- [Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN](https://realalpha.app/v/-JBhTBu9ZbA/) · All-In · Mar 23, 2026