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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cipher Digital
- Address and locality
- Colorado City · Mitchell County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000239
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 · 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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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