Amid the ongoing IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) stock rally, it has emerged that United States Congressman Cleo Fields made two timely purchases in the company, months before the firm announced a $9.7 billion GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), raising questions about possible insider awareness.
According to filings, Fields bought between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of IREN shares on July 10, 2025, when the stock was trading below $20.
By November 3, his IREN’s purchase had surged more than 330%, far outpacing the S&P 500’s 9% gain over the same period.
Despite the massive rally, Fields made another smaller Congress trade, between $1,001 and $15,000, on October 10, 2025, just weeks before the company’s blockbuster announcement.
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Notably, at press time, IREN was trading at $73, up 22.6% for the day. Year-to-date, the stock has rallied 640%.
IREN YTD stock price chart. Source: FinboldThe timing of Fields’ trades has drawn attention, given that IREN’s transformation from a cryptocurrency miner to a high-demand AI infrastructure provider has made it one of the year’s standout performers.
Why IREN stock is surging
The company’s new deal with Microsoft cements that transition, establishing IREN as a key supplier of GPU cloud capacity for artificial intelligence workloads.
Under the agreement, IREN will provide Microsoft access to Nvidia GB300 GPUs over a five-year term, with a total value of approximately $9.7 billion, including a 20% prepayment.
To support the contract, IREN has also partnered with Dell Technologies to purchase GPUs and related hardware valued at $5.8 billion. The deployment will take place at IREN’s 750MW Childress, Texas campus, featuring new liquid-cooled data centers capable of handling 200MW of critical IT load.
IREN Co-CEO Daniel Roberts called the deal a “milestone partnership” that validates the firm’s shift toward AI cloud services and highlights its competitive advantage in large-scale power and data center infrastructure.
Overall, the market has increasingly favored companies positioned at the intersection of energy, data centers, and AI compute capacity, such as IREN.
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Source: https://finbold.com/this-u-s-politician-suspiciously-bought-iren-stock-weeks-before-10b-microsoft-deal/
