# IREN and CIFR Price Targets, Anthropic and OpenAI Seek 20-30MW Sites, Data Centers Take Collateral Damage in Middle East and Ukraine

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Podcast: [Blockspace](https://stenobird.com/podcast/blockspace-ai-bitcoin-6791695)
Published: 2026-09-18T19:30:00+00:00
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Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with reports that Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding their power search to sub-50 MW sites, plus bullish investment bank forecasts for IREN and Cipher, and we close with a note on how the wars in I...

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