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Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS)

Cipher Stingray Data Center is a tracked AI data center campus in Texas, Andrews County. Cipher Mining's Stingray site on about 250 acres in Andrews County, West Texas is a roughly 100 MW gross AI data center fully leased to Amazon Web Services under a 15-year agreement. The project is financed with roughly

Under construction · Cipher Mining · Private land · ERCOT · Andrews, Andrews County, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Promised online: Q2 2026. 3 months past the claimed date, with no energized capacity on record. Claimed by Cipher Mining (source).

Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS) capacity claims
Source
Contracted0.10 GW2026-06-01reportedcompany filing
Under construction0.07 GW2026-06-01verifiedcompany filing

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Cipher Mining

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

4

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

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

Location
Purpose-built HPC data center in Andrews, Texas (Andrews County), on a site Cipher materials describe as about 250 acres (Cipher Form 8-K closing, Jun 15 2026; capacity/tenant detail in 8-K investor materials via StockTitan)
Gross / critical IT capacity (announced)
100 Gross MW / 70 MW critical IT load under contract (Cipher Stingray investor materials furnished with Form 8-K, via StockTitan)
Tenant
100% pre-leased to Amazon Data Services, Inc. (AWS); Amazon.com, Inc. parent lease guarantee described in transaction materials (Cipher 8-K materials via StockTitan)
Lease structure (announced)
Long-term triple-net lease; materials cite a 15-year base term plus three 5-year tenant extension options, 3.0% annual rent escalator, and illustrative contracted lease payments of roughly $2.0–$5.7B depending on extensions (Cipher 8-K materials via StockTitan)
Target rent commencement
10 IT MW network hall targeted April 1, 2027; 60 IT MW data hall targeted May 1, 2027 (Cipher 8-K materials via StockTitan)
Project financing
Stingray Compute LLC (wholly-owned indirect Cipher subsidiary) completed an $810.0 million private offering of 6.000% senior secured notes due 2031 on June 15, 2026; proceeds to finish the Stingray Facility, reimburse prior equity (~$61.5M), and fund debt-service reserves (Cipher Form 8-K)
Construction cost backstop (announced)
Transaction materials state Amazon agrees to cover construction cost overruns above $10.5MM per IT MW; Cipher provides a completion guarantee (Cipher 8-K materials via StockTitan)
Developer / issuer entities
Developer Cipher Stingray LLC; notes issuer Stingray Compute LLC (Cipher Form 8-K)

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The story of Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS)
Announced capex
$810M
Tenant
Amazon Web Services

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterAndrews County(5)·Texas(606)

The deal

developer
Cipher Mining · Developer and operator (Cipher Digital)
tenant
Amazon Web Services · 15-year lease for turnkey space and power
financier
Senior secured noteholders · $810M notes due 2031

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 55.8 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-04 17:00).

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Andrews 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

Cipher Stingray Data Center sits on private land in Texas, Andrews County. 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.

Financial structure

Stingray project financing (senior secured notes)
$810M. Backed by 15-year AWS lease with rent escalators company filing
Senior secured notes financing (construction)
$810M. $810M senior secured notes due 2031 to fund construction/completion of Stingray company filing

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.

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
AWS lease underpins up to several billion dollars of contracted lease revenue; includes annual rent escalators and Amazon.com parent guarantees source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    financier: Senior secured noteholders
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

52a9517b-db07-4eae-af7a-3d06f3595c14 · 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 Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS)?
Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Andrews. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS)?
Cipher Mining is recorded as a party to Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS) 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 Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS)?
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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DEPLOY. (2026). Cipher Stingray Data Center (AWS): AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/cipher-stingray-andrews-texas

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