Black Pearl Facility

Project of Cipher Mining

Kind

datacenter

Location

11786 County Road 209, Wink, TX 79789

County

Winkler County

State/region

TX

Country

US

Status

partially operational as of August 22, 2026

Where it stands

Cipher is retrofitting the 300 MW Black Pearl Facility in Wink, Texas, a former bitcoin mine, for a 15-year hyperscaler HPC lease of about 300 gross MW. A July 24, 2026 lease amendment accelerated delivery of first capacity to July 31, 2026. An August 2026 news piece, based on social media commentary, says the facility came online early and is generating rent; the delivered MW is not stated, and full ramp was targeted for Q1 2027.

300 MW planned

Assessed October 18, 2026 from the newest filings, releases and reporting that name this project (newest relied on: August 22, 2026).

Capacity

What has actually been delivered, against what has been promised. Each figure links to the statement it came from.

Who has claimed this site

Capacity commitments in the order they were announced. A commitment that ended shows why.

Claims about this project

Site intelligence

11786 Co Rd 209, Wink, TX 79789, USA

Candidate

Winkler County, TX

31.6945, -103.0829

Approximate address 11299 Co Rd 209, Monahans, TX 79789, USA Reverse-geocoded from the candidate centroid; not a permit-confirmed parcel address.

Conclusion so far Operating: the site is lit at night like a running facility. · confidence 90%

Running: night-time lights at the site ran 16.81x the surrounding area (29 of 29 clear nights, 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-04); surface temperature -2.1 K against its surroundings (21 pass(es), 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-17); radar backscatter moved +5.3 dB in a year. Based on 97 clear observation(s) from 2026-06-21 to 2026-10-19.

What would change this: Lights going dark over several clear nights.

Latest clear imagery: Google 2026-10-18 · ECOSTRESS thermal 2026-10-17 · radar 2026-10-15 · Landsat 2026-10-11 · night lights 2026-10-04 · Sentinel-2 2026-10-01 · NAIP 2022-05-18

Newest clear images187 clear image date(s)

How we located this site

35/100 (candidate): street location 25 + 1 independent source family 10

1. Starting point (the project's stated locality) 2026-10-19
   11786 County Road 209, Wink, TX 79789 → 31.69452, -103.08288 (street)
2. Located from a published address 2026-10-19
   11786 County Road 209, Wink, TX 79789 → 31.69452, -103.08288 (street)
3. OpenStreetMap features nearby 2026-10-19
   0 named match(es)

Recent changes

• 2025-10-20 vs 2025-10-13: structural change (radar signal shift)
• 2025-10-13 vs 2025-09-19: structural change (radar signal shift)
• 2026-08-11 vs 2026-07-17: structural change (radar signal shift)
• 2026-07-17 vs 2026-07-11: structural change (radar signal shift)

Satellite imagery on this page is drawn from the Google Earth satellite basemap, USDA NAIP aerial photography (~1 m/pixel), ESA Sentinel-2 multispectral (10 m, with per-date cloud masks), NASA / USGS Landsat 8/9 (30 m, plus surface temperature), ESA Sentinel-1 radar (all-weather, night), NASA ECOSTRESS thermal (~70 m), and NASA Black Marble night lights (500 m, daily). Each image is dated, labelled by source and pixel resolution, and downloadable at its native size; cloudy dates are kept and marked rather than hidden. New scenes are pulled daily as each provider publishes them.