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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Cipher Black Pearl Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cipher Digital
- Address and locality
- Wink · Winkler 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
- 25 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-000240
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.
- Electric utility
- Oncor
- Power source
- Grid
- Community response
- Not established
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- November 2025
Provider notes
Energy. 138-kV Oncor interconnection (ERCOT West); a preliminary PPA with ENGIE (up to 300 MW of wind) was announced May 2025 - grid-sourced renewable via PPA, not on-site generation.
Community. No documented local reception found (Wink is a small West-Texas oil-field community; coverage is exclusively financial/industry press). No council votes, opposition, litigation, or moratorium located.
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- Announced investment: The source note says the $2 billion figure is note financing inferred across two instruments and was meant to be omitted as an investment value.
What the source record says
~300 gross MW HPC/AI campus near Wink, Winkler County, under a 15-year AWS lease; Phase I targeted Q4 2026. Cipher transitioning crypto → HPC/AI. Coordinates are the Wink area centroid. Cipher Mining (Nasdaq: CIFR) financed Black Pearl via ~$2.0B senior secured notes (Black Pearl Compute LLC, Feb 2026) plus a ~$232.5M equity reimbursement (~$2.23B implied total, inferred across two instruments) -> investmentUsd omitted; the ~$9.3-9.8B AWS figure is 15-year lease revenue, not capex. No jobs figures disclosed -> jobs honest-zero. Mining-era cooling was ~250 MW air-cooled + ~50 MW liquid-cooled; the HPC/AI cooling architecture is undisclosed -> water honest-zero. No confirmed public subsidy surfaced. 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 signed a 15-year AWS lease to deliver ~300 gross MW at its Black Pearl campus near Wink; Phase I targeted Q4 2026
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Cipher Digital Black Pearl · Baxtel
- ENGIE teams up with Cipher Mining to power Texas data center (up to 300 MW wind PPA) · PR Newswire
- Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center · Yahoo Finance
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Cipher Mining Provides Third Quarter 2025 Business Update (GlobeNewswire, Nov 3, 2025)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cipher-black-pearl-wink-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-000240
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
- Wink, TX · Winkler (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.
- Announced: November 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
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.
- Electric utility: Oncor
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-25
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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