Roberts: There are currently no idle GPUs sitting in data centers globally
Daniel Roberts · Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN · Mar 23, 2026 · at 1:28:59
Daniel Roberts, co-CEO of IREN (Iris Energy), discusses global AI compute demand during an interview with Jason Calacanis at NVIDIA GTC.
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“There are no idle GPUs in the world sitting in a data center.”
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