Cipher Black Pearl Campus
Cipher Digital · Wink, TX · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 31.751, -103.1607
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Oncor
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 300 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- 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
Underlying source
Source notes
~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), so no investment figure is recorded; the $5.5 billion that Yahoo Finance reports for the 15-year AWS lease is contracted lease value, not capex. No jobs figures disclosed, so no job count is recorded. As of July 2026, the HPC/AI cooling architecture is undisclosed, so no water data is recorded. No confirmed public subsidy surfaced. Cipher Mining was renamed Cipher Digital.
138-kV Oncor interconnection (ERCOT West); a preliminary PPA with ENGIE (up to 300 MW of wind) was announced May 2025 - grid-sourced renewable via PPA, not on-site generation.
Sources and provenance
- Cipher Digital Black Pearl · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- ENGIE teams up with Cipher Mining to power Texas data center (up to 300 MW wind PPA) · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
- Cipher Mining Provides Third Quarter 2025 Business Update (GlobeNewswire, Nov 3, 2025) · source retrieved 2026-07-25
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.