Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined

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Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined

BY MEAD GRUVER AND MATT O’BRIEN
Updated 7:24 PM EDT, July 28, 2025
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An artificial intelligence data center that would use more electricity than every home in Wyoming combined before expanding to as much as five times that size will be built soon near Cheyenne, according to the city’s mayor.

“It’s a game changer. It’s huge,” Mayor Patrick Collins said Monday.

With cool weather — good for keeping computer temperatures down — and an abundance of inexpensive electricity from a top energy-producing state, Wyoming’s capital has become a hub of computing power.

The city has been home to Microsoft data centers since 2012. An $800 million data center announced last year by Facebook parent company Meta Platforms is nearing completion, Collins said.

The latest data center, a joint effort between regional energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and AI data center developer Crusoe, would begin at 1.8 gigawatts of electricity and be scalable to 10 gigawatts, according to a joint company statement.

A gigawatt can power as many as 1 million homes. But that’s more homes than Wyoming has people. The least populated state, Wyoming, has about 590,000 people.

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[Wonder Why]

1. Wyoming has 69,527 people and 192,633 maggots. That was the vote count.

[CrispyQ]

2. Google says WY population is 587,000. - nt

[Wonder Why]

6. Look up. It went right over your head.

[pansypoo53219]

3. if this shit can't use solar or wind, what a bloody waste.

[mopinko]

5. they shd b required to supply their own power.

these r big bldgs. put solar on those roofs. put up some wind.
they’re supposed to b high tech. use it.

[Brenda]

4. That's happening in many states.

And the local officials are signing NDA's with Big AI because, of course they don't have to answer to the public.

We are on the highway to hell at warp 10.

[Finishline42]

7. No kidding

The only way to make sure you have power is to have solar and/or wind with battery storage and software to prevent AI from stealing your electrons!!!