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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Microsoft had over 450 million paid user licenses as of January 2026, all unable to access their emails for over 24 hours.
Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored
Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
Governments, businesses, individuals were disrupted globally as server failures stretch into second day.
The BBC's Nadine Yousif's reports that Microsoft services like Outlook are slowly coming back online, but the company noted users "may still experience intermittent access issues".
Microsoft rules out any malicious "cyber or AI" activity after a worldwide outage disrupted healthcare services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate.
