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Black Pearl ERCOT interconnection approval

Company: Cipher Mining

Subject kind
regulatory
Statement date
2025-02-24
Promised amount
300.0 MW
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Black Pearl has conditional ERCOT interconnection approval for up to 300 MW

Source (primary)

Cipher Mining 10-K filed 2025-02-25 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “The Black Pearl Facility has conditional interconnection approval from Electricity Reliability Council of Texas ("ERCOT"), the organization that operates Texas' electrical grid, of up to 300 MW”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 17, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819989/000181998925000005/cifr-20241231.htm) in full (492,885 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Cipher Mining 10-K filed 2025-02-25

Quote: “The Black Pearl Facility has conditional interconnection approval from Electricity Reliability Council of Texas ("ERCOT"), the organization that operates Texas' electrical grid, of up to 300 MW”

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