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Posted on 07/11/2026 6:35:41 AM PDT by DFG
Project Jade, Wyoming’s largest data center, is now Project Tembo, and the company behind the 2.7-gigawatt facility is a mystery no longer.
The data center will be owned and operated by none other than Google, giving Cheyenne yet another of the world’s largest tech companies in what is fast becoming an emerging tech frontier.
Cheyenne has hosted Microsoft data centers for the past decade or so and that company has announced plans for a major expansion on a 3,500-acre tract of land whose annexation is pending before the Cheyenne City Council.
Meta announced last year it was joining the Wyoming fold with an $800 million, 715,000-square-foot data center campus on a 960-acre parcel in the High Plains Business Park. That project, recently making headlines because of bacterial contamination that showed up in Cheyenne’s wastewater system, is set to open as early as 2027.
Google’s new facility likely isn’t the last large tech company to show up in Cheyenne. In addition to its 10 existing locations, Cheyenne has five more under construction and another nine in advanced stages of discussion, according to data from Cheyenne LEADS.
LEADS has also had 36 data center companies or site selectors express interest in Cheyenne or Laramie County, plus another 30 “tire kickers” that made at least one exploratory call.
Prometheus Hyperscale, meanwhile, has said it’s talking with “name-brand” companies for one gigawatt-scale data center near Evanston and one near Casper.
Inside Project Tembo’s Massive Campus
Google’s project, according to planning documents filed with Laramie County, will be a 716-acre campus 8 miles south of Cheyenne in the Switchgrass Industrial Park, formerly used for seasonal cattle grazing. It is surrounded by rural, agricultural private and state-owned lands, as well as a solar field.
The nearest residence is .1 miles east of the project. Single-family residences are also located .5 miles north and 1.34 miles south of the location. All of them are “low-density,” Google said in its filing.
Deeds filed with the application identify the owners as the Lazy D Grazing Association and Boyd and Allison Meyer.
The application outlines a project that includes four data center halls and an office hub, as well as logistics and network buildings and new access roads off U.S. 85, with a planned completion date of 2031. The size of each data center hall is not mentioned, other than to describe them as “large-scale” facilities designed to support “a large number of computer servers operating simultaneously, along with associated mechanical and electrical equipment” for high-density computer workloads.
Quiet Hand-off From Crusoe To Google
Google’s data center facilities are being built by Jupiter Star Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Jupiter Star Holdings is replacing Crusoe, which last month told Bloomberg it’d been asked to “pause” construction of Project Jade at the customer’s request.
That initially led some to believe the huge data center project, which can scale to up to 10 gigawatts, had been put on hold.
Subsequent statements, however, made it clear the project never hit the pause button. Crusoe actually had been asked to pack up and leave by the data center client, which was taking over construction of the facilities.
Tallgrass Energy executives told Cowboy State Daily at the time the project was “full steam ahead” and they would still be building out and delivering a bring-your-own power generation hub for the data center client. The client, Tallgrass added then, had not changed, though they declined to confirm who was building such a large data center.
Black Hills Energy also put out a media statement at the time, saying the project was continuing. In a subsequent interview with Cowboy State Daily about how the company is handling the surge of power-hungry data centers coming to its Cheyenne-area grid, the company confirmed it is a partner in the project.
That suggests the project will eventually be connecting to the existing electrical grid and infrastructure, even though it has been touted as bringing its own power.
Google’s application says Tallgrass Energy will “combine energy resources from Black Hills Energy, fuel cells, and its power plant” to a substation that will serve power to the data center campus.
Wastewater treatment, meanwhile, will occur on site with evaporative lagoon storage. Connection to Cheyenne’s municipal wastewater system was not deemed cost-effective.
All wastes will be handled in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws, the document goes on to say, and disturbed areas will be revegetated with native or adapted dry-land perennial vegetation.
Traffic studies will also be conducted, and efforts will be made to minimize noise, wildlife impact, and visual impacts.
Public Filings Reveal Google’s Role
Most of the new details about the former Project Jade aren’t coming from press conferences and ribbon cuttings right now. They’re from a June 30 site-plan amendment, filed with Laramie County’s Planning and Development, along with a stack of other documents.
The site-plan overview filed with the amendment identifies Google in its first sentence, publicly revealing the company behind the former Project Jade for the first time.
Google, through Jupiter Star Holdings, has also sent out a required “adjacent neighbor” notice identifying a 32.83-acre area where an office support facility is planned. That was not part of Project Jade’s original conditional-use permit, the letter says.
A hearing has thus been set for the required permit at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 13 in the Laramie County Commission chambers.
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Remind me what the advertising company google produces that benefits the American people.
The evacuation of California continues.
Dear Wyoming. JUST SAY NO! Not just to that, but to the influx of folks that will ruin your state.
Low Density. Well yeah given that Wyoming has the lowest population of the 50 states it’s almost a given anywhere in it.
Better not go too far with importing techies or Wyoming will turn blue.
That’s two senate seats.
I use Google maps, although I'm not sure if they produce the maps or just advertise them.
I also have a 30-year old Rand McNally map atlas that I still use on occasion. Plus, I keep a globe in the den, a Bruton pocket transit on the shelf and a few U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps in the drawer with the pistol.
“Better not go too far with importing techies or Wyoming will turn blue.”
Hopefully they are getting the best of the worst.
And how much did the Cheneys make during the last decade?
Recently spent some time there and in Laramie. Fantastic.
Can I ask a stupid question about data centers?
Why are we hearing so much about new data centers being built? And about communities resisting because they allegedly use so much power and water?
And why is there this great need for data centers? Do data centers operate the entire internet infrastructure? But then the internet and cell phones as we know them have been around for decades, and are functioning. And they’ve been functioning before this alleged explosion in the construction of data centers.
Sorry, I’m actually asking a number of stupid questions. I admit I don’t get out much. But even so, just wondering how it is, that this issue of data centers has become such a hot issue.
This is the best newspaper in the country I tthink, not for this kind of hews necessaririly. Citizenfreepress frequently links to articles. I even read a great obituary there this AM of a man who died the other day, he was one of the late life techie imports who retired to a ranch life after an impressive career.
A bit windy at times and the hail capital of the US.
J.D. Vance was on the Mike Rowe show recently and data centers came up. They were saying how China is pushing the anti-AI message in the USA, while of course surging in their own development of it.
Vance said we can’t allow China to have the majority stake in AI (information basically, and more), but we also need to increase our electrical power capacity. He showed some chart that had USA electrical generation flat lined for the last 30(?) years, while China passed us 20 years ago and now produces 3x what we do. And we obviously need to increase our energy production.
Vance in other speeches has said we need to be wary of AI though. I think both promoting it and being wary of it is reasonable. (Sort of like building nuclear weapons perhaps. We need them, but...)
What a surprise! We thought it was owned by Beautiful Betty’s Bra Bar & Botique, Ltd. of Podunk, Iowa…….. as part of her business diversification program.
16.41 ACRES
AI and a massive surveillance state. Everything everywhere being recorded. They’re going to need to keep a close eye on us because we’re not going to like where this is all going.
CONFLICTING DATA IN ARTICLE:
716,000 SQ FT ???????
716 ACRES ???????
716 ACRES===31,188,960 SQ FT 31 MILLION-———
CANNOT EVEN TRUST THEIR OWN WORDS.
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