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Barber Lake Data Center
Anthropic is the primary tenant at the Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Mitchell County. AI Training compute for Claude is consumed here.
| Tenant: | Anthropic |
| Facility: | Barber Lake |
| Operator: | Cipher Mining (owner) / Fluidstack (operator) / Google (backstop) |
| Location: | Colorado City, Mitchell County |
| Capacity (MW): | 207 |
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Type: | AI Factory |
| Workload: | AI Training |
| Product: | Claude |
| Power: | ERCOT grid, former bitcoin mine |
| GPU: | Nvidia GPUs |
| Operational: | Sep 2026 delivery |
| Investment (B): | 1.7 |
Notes: About 207 MW critical IT (roughly 300 MW gross) fully leased to Fluidstack across three transactions. Google backstops about $1.73B of lease obligations. Site can expand to 500 MW on 587 surrounding acres.