AWS partnership for Black Pearl HPC data center
Company: Cipher Mining - Project: Black Pearl Facility
The claim, verbatim
Cipher announced a partnership to build 300 MW gross data center capacity at Black Pearl, Wink, TX, leased to Amazon Data Services, Inc. for at least 15 years.
Source (primary)
cipher-mining 8-K exhibit (dp240991_ex9901.htm) (SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex), press_release)
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Quote: “On Nov. 3, 2025, Cipher announced a new partnership to build 300 MW of gross data center capacity which will be leased to Amazon Data Services, Inc. for at least 15 years”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Cipher announced a partnership to build 300 MW of gross capacity at Black Pearl in Wink, Texas, leased to Amazon Data Services for at least 15 years.
Confirmed in the source:
- Cipher announced a new partnership (on Nov. 3, 2025)
- The partnership is to build 300 MW of gross data center capacity
- The facility is at Black Pearl, Wink, TX
- The capacity will be leased to Amazon Data Services, Inc. for at least 15 years
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (8-K Ex) (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819989/000095010326001480/dp240991_ex9901.htm) in full (20,147 characters, retrieved September 20, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms cipher-mining 8-K exhibit (dp240991_ex9901.htm)
Quote: “On Nov. 3, 2025, Cipher announced a new partnership to build 300 MW of gross data center capacity which will be leased to Amazon Data Services, Inc. for at least 15 years”