Roberts: IREN's West Texas data center achieves 6ms round-trip latency to Dallas
Daniel Roberts · Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN · Mar 23, 2026 · at 1:36:32
Daniel Roberts, co-CEO of IREN, dispels claims that remote data center locations create unacceptable latency for customers.
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“When you look at latency from our site in the middle of the desert in West Texas down to Dallas, the big carrier hotel. Six millisecond round trip latency.”
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