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title: "(Video) IREN CCO: Why is vertical integration the only way out for AI cloud services?"
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description: "The guest of this interview is Ken Draper, the Chief Commercial Officer of Iren. The content mainly revolves around Iren's business positioning, development history, core competitiveness, data center construction, GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) model, strategic projects in collaboration with Microsoft, supply chain challenges, comparison between air cooling and liquid cooling technologies, and future development plans."
datetime: "2026-04-07T10:03:31.000Z"
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# (Video) IREN CCO: Why is vertical integration the only way out for AI cloud services?

The guest of this interview is Ken Draper, Chief Commercial Officer of Iren. The discussion mainly revolves around Iren's business positioning, development history, core competitiveness, data center construction, GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) model, strategic projects with Microsoft, supply chain challenges, comparison between air-cooling and liquid-cooling technologies, and future development plans.$IREN(IREN.US)

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