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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Cipher Barber Lake Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cipher Digital
- Address and locality
- Colorado City · Mitchell County · Texas
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000239
The underlying provider record is retained. These notes add source-attributed context and flag conflicts; any withheld value is explained separately. They do not certify current operation.
- Source review · reviewed 2026-10-11: Prior source review (2026-10-09): Cipher’s release dated September 25, 2026, included in its SEC filing, revises Barber Lake’s phased delivery target to Q4 2026 through Q1 2027, with first rent expected in Q4 2026. The existing Fluidstack lease is followed by a separate additional ten-year commitment from an unnamed AI lab; the source does not say Fluidstack’s lease became twenty years. Google is described as a backstop counterparty, not an established tenant. The supporting 10-Q was filed August 4, 2026 for the period ending June 30. Neither target dates nor rent expectations confirm operation. Historical document addendum reviewed 2026-10-11: Mitchell County's notice names the Cipher Barber Lake Reinvestment Zone and Phase I, II and III projects. It identifies Cipher Barber Lake, LLC and Cipher Barber Lake Resources, LLC as abatement counterparties/property owners and gives estimated improvement costs of $1.3 billion for Phase II and $2.0 billion for Phase III. These are estimates, not spending received or measured capacity. The August 24, 2026 Commissioners Court minutes record unanimous approval of the first agreement amendment changing its stated figure from 244 MW to 300 MW; Phase II passed 4–1. Phase III passed 4–1 conditionally, pending agreement language restricted to the data center. These are incentive actions, not building permits, construction or operation; the agreement's MW wording is not admitted as an IT or utility-capacity specification. The notice does not establish distinct facility boundaries for the phases.
- Cipher Digital Inc. — 2026-09-25 · source retrieved 2026-10-09
- Cipher Digital — Form 10-Q filed August 4, 2026, period ended June 30, 2026 · source retrieved 2026-10-09
- Mitchell County abatement hearing notice — hearing 2026-08-24; issue date not printed · source retrieved 2026-10-10
- Mitchell County Commissioners Court minutes — 2026-08-24 · source retrieved 2026-10-10
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 587 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1.733 billion
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
What the source record says
587-acre Barber Lake site near Colorado City, Mitchell County; ~300 MW HPC/AI under a Fluidstack/Google lease; Phase I targeted Sept 2026. Coordinates are the Colorado City area centroid. Cipher Mining was renamed Cipher Digital.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · source-reported under construction
Cipher Mining acquired the 587-acre Barber Lake site near Colorado City for HPC/AI; Phase I targeted Sept 2026 (Fluidstack/Google lease)
Sources and attribution
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- Cipher Mining acquires more than 500 acres across two sites in Texas for crypto and HPC use · Data Center Dynamics
- Cipher Mining Inc. — Proposed $1.4B Senior Secured Notes Offering press release (SEC 8-K exhibit, via Quiver Quantitative reproduction)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cipher-barber-lake-colorado-city-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000239
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Colorado City, TX · Mitchell (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Cipher Digital
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 587 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.733 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-26
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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