Iren says Microsoft has requested design changes at a data centre known as Childress in Texas as its shares tumbled in US markets.
Iren has confirmed delays at a data centre in Texas that it is building for Microsoft as it delivered a quarterly net loss of $380 million and its shares slid in US markets.
The Nasdaq-listed company, whose result narrowed to a net loss of $US263 million from $US385 million a year earlier, was founded by Australian brothers Daniel and Will Roberts.
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Local officials warn some services remain unavailable even as Outlook starts to resume normal operations after outage
Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company’s systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.
Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
Cerebras raised its 2026 forecast to up to $960m and says it has a Microsoft cloud deal. Its shares jumped about 17% after hours.
Some hospitals urged patients to call rather than email, bail bonds had to paid in person one sheriff's department warned, and some governments had to suspend certain operations.
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
