Cowboy State Daily by Leo Wolfson 7/2/2024
Facebook to build data center in Wyoming that will use 10x times more electricity than entire city of Cheyenne.
Meta (Facebook) Formally Announces Massive $800M Data Center In CheyenneSocial media giant Meta (aka Facebook) formally unveiled plans Tuesday for a massive $800 million, 715,000-square-foot Cheyenne data center. They say at the peak of construction it will generate more than 1,000 jobs.
While Wyoming residents were going about their day-to-day lives in 2019, public officials and economic developers began working behind the scenes to bring a large Facebook data center to the Cowboy State.
That’s when the company now known as Meta — which owns social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and What’s App — first approached local officials about buying land south of town.
Fast-forward five years to Tuesday morning, when Project Cosmo was officially announced, an $800 million, 715,000-square-foot Meta data center in south Cheyenne. Meta says the project will support about 100 operational jobs and more than 1,000 skilled trade jobs at its peak of construction.
The facility is scheduled to open by 2027.
Cowboy State Daily first reported on Meta’s plans to build a data center in May.
The project is viewed as one of the largest high-tech investments ever made in the Cowboy State and is widely considered one of the reasons why the nation’s largest energy companies are building sprawling solar farms nearby along the highway leading south to Colorado along South Greeley Highway.
A $1.2 billion Enbridge Inc. solar project is planned near the data center that could supply it with power. The 1.2 million solar panels will produce enough electricity to run 771,000 homes, more than in all of Wyoming.
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https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/07/02/meta-formally-announces-massive-800m-715-000-square-foot-cheyenne-data-center/
