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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

Partially energized · Cipher Digital Inc. · Private land · ERCOT · Wink, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded
Black Pearl capacity claims
Source
Contracted0.30 GW2025-12-31verifiedsec filing

Key facts

partially energized

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.

Capacity (lease)
About 300 MW gross under a 15-year lease with AWS
Location
About 75 acres near Wink, Winkler County, Texas
Interconnection
300 MW approved; ERCOT market agreements in place
Prior use
Bitcoin mining Jun 2025 to Feb 2026, peaking at 150 MW
Developer entities
Cipher Black Pearl LLC; notes issuer Black Pearl Compute LLC
Project notes (Feb 2026)
$2.0B 6.125% senior secured notes due 2031, closed Feb 11 2026
First capacity (company-claimed, Aug 2026)
Delivery began early Aug 2026, two months early; rent commenced
Build status (company-claimed, Aug 2026)
Remaining Phase I halls in fit-out; Phase II foundations and steel underway

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In clusterTexas(611)

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: 50.6 GW (EIA-930, 2026-11-07 05:00).

County water status: Abnormally dry (D0) in Winkler County, week of 2026-11-03 (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. Nov 2026
    Current: Partially energized

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 partially energized. 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?
This record has been checked against its cited sources by automated agents for the indexed registry; it has not been individually reviewed by a person. 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 November 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/cipher-black-pearl-wink-texas

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