Data center campus
Black Pearl
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 ERCOT interconnection
Under construction · Private land · ERCOT · Wink, Texas, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced
not recorded
Contracted
0.30 GW
verified
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracted | 0.30 GW | 2025-12-31 | verified | sec filing |
The deal
- operator
- Cipher Digital Inc. · via subsidiary Cipher Black Pearl LLC (ticker CIFR)
- offtaker
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. · 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
Sources
- Cipher Digital Inc. Form 10-K FY2025
- Cipher Mining Business Update / AWS 15-year lease 8-K
- Cipher Mining plans $2bn senior secured notes for Amazon-leased Black Pearl
a18cf961-c566-488b-8296-b839877c163f · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.