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Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus

Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus is a tracked AI data center campus in Wyoming, Cheyenne. Microsoft has operated data centers in Cheyenne since 2012 and on 2026-04-14 announced intent to buy ~3,200 acres south of the city (200-acre Bison Business Park parcel plus adjacent 3,000 acres) to roughly triple its fo

Energized · Microsoft · greenfield · WECC · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

Track Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus

Capacity: announced vs energized

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Contracted
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Under construction
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Energized
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Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

2018-07-01Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-07-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-08-29Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-07-31Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-08-20Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Key facts

energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Microsoft

Developer

United States

Location

WECC

Grid

greenfield

Land

8

Facilities tracked

On the data center map

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The story of Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus
Announced capex
$68M
Jobs
320 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per job
$213K per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterWyoming(26)

The deal

utility
Black Hills Energy · Large Power Contract Service (LPCS) tariff; Microsoft covers infrastructure upgrade costs
operator
Microsoft

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
WECC
Interconnection
Water
Direct evaporative cooling uses water less than 10% of the year; Microsoft commits to replenish an estimated 566M gallons of water. Served by Black Hills Energy under Large Power Contract Service (LPCS) tariff.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2025-01-01

    Blackwell-generation training capacity at Cheyenne

    inferredSite published as Fairwater-class; specific chip inferred from Microsoft's Blackwell-first stance for new build

    Microsoft

Why here

Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus sits on greenfield in Wyoming, Cheyenne. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Off-site infrastructure improvements
$68M. Completed and future off-site infrastructure improvements associated with Cheyenne datacenter operations. press release

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Construction jobs
2,000 source
Permanent jobs
320 source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    financial recorded
    capex: Off-site infrastructure improvements
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Energized

Sources

9bf4a473-a657-4b97-8a64-fc31b399d260 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus?
Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Cheyenne. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus?
Microsoft is recorded as a party to Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus is energized and operating. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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We notify you when energized capacity, lifecycle state, or a new dated capacity claim changes against primary-source evidence, not when the developer issues a press release.

Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Microsoft Cheyenne Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/microsoft-cheyenne-wyoming

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