The 2.7-gigawatt data center once called Project Jade 8 miles south of Cheyenne has been unmasked as a massive Google campus. Google\u2019s project, according to planning documents, will be a 716-acre campus in the Switchgrass Industrial Park.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By Ren\u00e9e Jean<\/p>\n\n\n\n Project Jade, Wyoming\u2019s largest data center, is now Project Tembo, and the company behind the 2.7-gigawatt facility is a mystery no longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The data center will be owned and operated by none other than Google, giving Cheyenne yet another of the world\u2019s largest tech companies in what is fast becoming an emerging tech frontier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/a> before the Cheyenne City Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta announced last year<\/a> 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<\/u><\/a> that showed up in Cheyenne\u2019s wastewater system, is set to open as early as 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Google\u2019s new facility likely isn\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n LEADS has also had 36 data center companies or site selectors express interest in Cheyenne or Laramie County, plus another 30 \u201ctire kickers\u201d that made at least one exploratory call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prometheus Hyperscale, meanwhile, has said it\u2019s talking with \u201cname-brand\u201d companies for one gigawatt-scale data center near Evanston<\/a> and one near Casper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 \u201clow-density,\u201d Google said in its filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deeds filed with the application identify the owners as the Lazy D Grazing Association and Boyd and Allison Meyer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 \u201clarge-scale\u201d facilities designed to support \u201ca large number of computer servers operating simultaneously, along with associated mechanical and electrical equipment\u201d for high-density computer workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google\u2019s 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\u2019d been asked to \u201cpause\u201d construction of Project Jade at the customer\u2019s request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That initially led some to believe the huge data center project, which can scale to up to 10 gigawatts, had been put on hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subsequent statements, however, made it clear the project never hit the pause button<\/u><\/a>. Crusoe actually had been asked to pack up and leave by the data center client, which was taking over construction of the facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tallgrass Energy executives told Cowboy State Daily at the time the project was \u201cfull steam ahead\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.imgix.net\/google-7-8-26.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&q=75&auto=format%2Ccompress\")
Inside Project Tembo\u2019s Massive Campus<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Quiet Hand-off From Crusoe To Google<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n