This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cipher Digital
- Address and locality
- Wink · Winkler County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000240
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 · 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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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