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Data center campus

Barber Lake

Barber Lake is a tracked AI data center campus in Texas, Colorado City. Cipher Digital's (formerly Cipher Mining) 300 gross MW HPC campus on 250 acres near Colorado City in Mitchell County, leased in full to Fluidstack (backstopped by Google). The 10-K frames capacity as 300 gross MW (244 MW

Under construction · Cipher Digital Inc. · Private land · ERCOT · Colorado City, 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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Barber Lake capacity claims
Source
Contracted0.30 GW2025-12-31verifiedsec filing
Contracted0.21 GW2025-11-20reportedearnings call

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.

Contracted term 20 years / revenue over $9B (Sep 2026)
Company-stated by Cipher Digital (company-stated; also GlobeNewswire PR via Manila Times): Fluidstack USA II lease amended plus binding commitment with unnamed leading AI lab for a follow-on 10-year lease; aggregate contracted term 10→20 years; incremental contracted revenue ~$5.2B; total contracted revenue at facility from $3.8B to over $9B. Data halls expected Q4 2026-Q1 2027; first rent Q4 2026. Cipher bears first $359.3M overruns; tenant reimburses 50% above that over 20 years. Cap: Cipher Form 8-K + PR; AI lab not named

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In clusterTexas(607)

The deal

operator
Cipher Digital Inc. · via subsidiary Cipher Barber Lake LLC; formerly Cipher Mining Inc. (ticker CIFR)
offtaker
Fluidstack USA II Inc. · 10-year HPC lease, full campus
utility
Luminant / Vistra Operations · interconnection electrical facilities
financier
Google · backstops Fluidstack obligations; holds Google Warrants

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection

Barber Lake substation (Luminant/Vistra interconnection facilities), 0.30 GW grid interconnect, Energized. 300 MW ERCOT interconnection approved without load-profile restriction; substation sold back to Vistra at lease end

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 52.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00).

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Mitchell County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Barber Lake sits on private land in Texas, Colorado City. 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

Google lease-obligation backstop
$333M. Google backstops Fluidstack's lease obligations to support project-related debt for the Barber Lake build-out. press release

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.

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Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    financial recorded
    incentive: Google lease-obligation backstop
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

b9d40f4b-f4e6-4690-893f-7951c9c32832 · 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 Barber Lake?
Barber Lake is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Colorado City. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Barber Lake?
Cipher Digital Inc. is recorded as a party to Barber Lake on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Barber Lake operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Barber Lake 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 Barber Lake?
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). Barber Lake: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/cipher-barber-lake-colorado-city-texas

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