What is Cipher Barber Lake?

Cipher Barber Lake is an AI data center project in Colorado City, Texas tracked by Data Center Index. Its status is under construction.

Where is Cipher Barber Lake?

Cipher Barber Lake is in Colorado City, Texas. Every tracked Texas campus, with counts and capacity, is at https://datacenterindex.ai/markets/texas.

How big is Cipher Barber Lake?

Data Center Index tracks Cipher Barber Lake at 300 MW. A permit, utility filing or SEC filing states that capacity, in a source dated February 24, 2026.

Who is building Cipher Barber Lake?

Cipher Digital is developing Cipher Barber Lake, with Fluidstack named as the tenant.

When will Cipher Barber Lake come online?

The next building at Cipher Barber Lake is expected online 2026-12. That date is the first building going live, not the full build-out.

Cipher Barber Lake

Name: Cipher Barber Lake
Address: Colorado City, TX, United States

300 MW AI data center in Colorado City, TX, United States: under construction.

Capacity: 300 MW
Location: Colorado City, TX, United States
Developer: Cipher Digital
Tenant: Fluidstack
Status: under construction

Cipher Barber Lake is a 300 MW AI data center project located in Colorado City, TX, United States, currently under construction. It is being built by Cipher Digital for tenant Fluidstack. This project is one of thousands of data-center facilities tracked by Data Center Index across TX, United States, covering operational, under-construction, announced, and permitted sites.

Project description

Cipher's Barber Lake site in Colorado City, Texas is leased in full to AI cloud provider Fluidstack, which agreed in November 2025 to take all 300 MW. Google backstops part of Fluidstack's 10-year lease, and an additional 39 MW of critical IT load is due by January 2027.

Notes

Users: Anthropic

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Frequently asked questions

What is Cipher Barber Lake?: Cipher Barber Lake is an AI data center project in Colorado City, Texas tracked by Data Center Index. Its status is under construction.
Where is Cipher Barber Lake?: Cipher Barber Lake is in Colorado City, Texas. Every tracked Texas campus, with counts and capacity, is at https://datacenterindex.ai/markets/texas.
How big is Cipher Barber Lake?: Data Center Index tracks Cipher Barber Lake at 300 MW. A permit, utility filing or SEC filing states that capacity, in a source dated February 24, 2026.
Who is building Cipher Barber Lake?: Cipher Digital is developing Cipher Barber Lake, with Fluidstack named as the tenant.
When will Cipher Barber Lake come online?: The next building at Cipher Barber Lake is expected online 2026-12. That date is the first building going live, not the full build-out.

Sources

Cipher Mining Signs Additional 56 MW, 10-Year AI Hosting Agreement with Fluidstack (globenewswire.com · press · 2025-11-20)
San Angelo LIVE! (sanangelolive.com · press · 2026-09-11)
Blockspace (via Yahoo Finance) (finance.yahoo.com · press · 2025-09-25)
Northwise (northwiseproject.com · press · 2026-05-25)
Cipher Digital Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (sec.gov · filing · 2026-02-24)
Cipher Digital Expands Barber Lake Lease Term to 20 Years, Increasing Revenue to Over $9 Billion (finviz.com · press · 2026-09-25)
datacenterdynamics.com (press · 2026-10-10)
SEC EDGAR (Cipher Mining 8-K exhibit (sec.gov · filing · 2026-09-11)
sec.gov (filing · 2026-05-25)