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Black Pearl

Black Pearl is a tracked AI data center campus in Texas, Wink. Cipher Digital's wholly-owned 300 gross MW facility on ~75 acres in Winkler County near Wink, retrofitting from bitcoin mining (live since June 2025) to turnkey HPC under a 15-year AWS lease signed October 2025. 300 MW E

Under construction · Cipher Digital Inc. · Private land · ERCOT · Wink, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
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Under construction
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Energized
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Black Pearl capacity claims
Source
Contracted0.30 GW2025-12-31verifiedsec filing

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Cipher Digital Inc.

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Gross capacity (lease)
Approximately 300 gross MW of turnkey data center capacity under a 15-year lease with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)
Location / acreage
About 75 acres near Wink, Texas (Winkler County), owned by a wholly-owned Cipher subsidiary (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)
Interconnection
Approvals for 300 MW of interconnection; agreements in place to participate in the ERCOT market (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)
Rent commencement (targeted)
Initial subphase of Phase I targeted Q4 2026; Phase II initial subphase targeted Q1 2027; full rent ramp targeted Q1 2027 (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)
Prior use
Bitcoin mining commenced June 2025 and reached 150 MW by September 2025; mining ceased February 2026 as the site retrofit for HPC proceeded (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)
Developer entity
Lease via wholly-owned subsidiary Cipher Black Pearl LLC; later project notes issued by Black Pearl Compute LLC (wholly-owned indirect) (Cipher Form 10-K FY2025)

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The deal

operator
Cipher Digital Inc. · via subsidiary Cipher Black Pearl LLC (ticker CIFR)
offtaker
Amazon · 15-year lease signed Oct 2025; part of broader ~$5.5B AWS relationship

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection

Black Pearl ERCOT interconnection, 0.30 GW grid interconnect, Energized. 300 MW interconnection approved; grid-powered

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 59.4 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-02 04:00).

County water status: Extreme drought (D3) in Winkler County, week of 2026-09-29 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Black Pearl sits on private land in Texas, Wink. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    offtaker: Amazon Web Services, Inc.
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

a18cf961-c566-488b-8296-b839877c163f · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Black Pearl?
Black Pearl is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Wink. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Black Pearl?
Cipher Digital Inc. is recorded as a party to Black Pearl on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Black Pearl operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Black Pearl is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Black Pearl?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Black Pearl: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/cipher-black-pearl-wink-texas

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