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# Anthropic Barber Lake

Facility record `fac-epoch-anthropic-barber-lake` — data source: Epoch AI — frontier data centres (https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers); authority tier 2; contains estimated values (is_estimated: true)

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | AI Training |
| Status | Under construction |
| Location | Mitchell County, Texas, US (32.4, -100.92) |
| Location basis | The record's coordinates fall in Mitchell County, Texas, outside any city, town or census-designated place \(U.S. Census Bureau boundaries as of 1 January 2026, read 30 October 2026\). |
| Location in the source's words | Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers gives the city as “Colorado City” and the state as “Texas” \(download of 30 October 2026\). |
| Facility power | not published |
| IT load | not published |
| GPU count | not published |
| H100-equivalents | not published |
| Peak PFLOPS (FP16) | not published |
| Site owner | The site owner is unrecorded. |
| Site operator | No organisation is recorded as operating this site. |
| AI hardware owner | Cipher Digital |
| Announced | not published |
| Operational | not published |

## Role evidence

Each role is stated only as the relationship its own source establishes.

- **AI hardware owner: Cipher Digital.** Epoch AI's field for who owns the AI hardware, which it defines as not necessarily the owner or operator of the facility. “Owner: Cipher Mining \#confident” [Source](<https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers>)

## Organisations recorded at the site

### Anthropic — Uses the compute

Named in Epoch AI's field for labs using the compute; it records use, not a lease.

Recorded start date: not stated. Recorded end date: not stated.
[Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers](<https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers>)

## Cite

> Scrutica, "Anthropic Barber Lake" (facility record), https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-anthropic-barber-lake; data source: Epoch AI — frontier data centres; accessed 2026-10-31.

Full interactive record: https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-anthropic-barber-lake · Methodology for derived values: https://scrutica.com/methodology#flop-estimation · All programmatic surfaces: https://scrutica.com/agents