Data Center Registry
Cipher Black Pearl Campus
Wink, Winkler County, Texas · All 10 Cipher Digital sites
Cipher Black Pearl Campus is a data center under construction in Wink, Texas (Winkler County), operated by Cipher Digital. The public record puts it at announced November 2025, 300 MW planned, a reported $2 billion investment.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Cipher Digital
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Wink, Winkler County, TX
- Coordinates
- 31.7510, -103.1607
- Power capacity
- 300 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $2 billion
- Announced
- November 2025
- Utility
- Oncor
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- 2026Under constructionCipher Mining signed a 15-year AWS lease to deliver ~300 gross MW at its Black Pearl campus near Wink; Phase I targeted Q4 2026 Source: Baxtel
Opposition and litigation at this site
The record carries no reception finding for Cipher Black Pearl Campus in Wink, Winkler County, Texas, but it does carry this note as of July 25, 2026: No documented local reception found (Wink is a small West-Texas oil-field community; coverage is exclusively financial/industry press).
Power and water
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.
Notes on the record
~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) -> investmentUsd omitted; the ~$9.3-9.8B AWS figure is 15-year lease revenue, not capex. No jobs figures disclosed -> jobs honest-zero. Mining-era cooling was ~250 MW air-cooled + ~50 MW liquid-cooled; the HPC/AI cooling architecture is undisclosed -> water honest-zero. No confirmed public subsidy surfaced. Cipher Mining was renamed Cipher Digital.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Cipher Black Pearl Campus in Wink?
The record carries no reception finding for Cipher Black Pearl Campus in Wink, Winkler County, Texas, but it does carry this note as of July 25, 2026: No documented local reception found (Wink is a small West-Texas oil-field community; coverage is exclusively financial/industry press).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Cipher Black Pearl Campus?
No lawsuit over Cipher Black Pearl Campus appears in the record we track as of July 25, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Cipher Black Pearl Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Cipher Black Pearl Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Cipher Black Pearl Campus, and how big is it?
Cipher Digital is the operator on record. We hold 10 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Cipher Black Pearl Campus," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cipher-black-pearl-wink-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/cipher-black-pearl-wink-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Cipher Digital Black Pearl · Baxtel · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.ENGIE teams up with Cipher Mining to power Texas data center (up to 300 MW wind PPA) · PR Newswire · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 3.Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center · Yahoo Finance · retrieved July 8, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from September 13, 2026
- 4.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 5.Cipher Mining Provides Third Quarter 2025 Business Update (GlobeNewswire, Nov 3, 2025) · retrieved July 25, 2026
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