Google announces $17bn Cheyenne data center campus

Google said on 5 November 2026 that it will build its first data center in Wyoming, a Cheyenne campus backed by a $17 billion investment, with power supplied by natural-gas fuel cells and gas generators. The company announced the project with Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy, American Electric Power, and Related Digital.

The campus will sit on a 716-acre parcel eight miles south of Cheyenne in the Switchgrass Industrial Park, and a planning application describes four data halls along with office, logistics and network buildings, according to DatacenterDynamics. Google did not disclose the data center's capacity, but earlier reports suggested it could total up to 2.7 GW.

Power will come partly from a 702 MW fuel-cell development under a power purchase agreement with AEP signed last month, which Google described as a first-of-its-kind commercial-scale fuel cell project with carbon capture and storage. Bloom Energy will make the solid oxide fuel cells, and AEP will own and operate them. The fuel cells run on natural gas, and the carbon capture system is designed to capture and permanently store a large majority of emissions at Tallgrass's Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Google is also buying power from gas generators run by Tallgrass and Black Hills, and it is conducting a front-end engineering and design study to evaluate fitting Tallgrass's combined-cycle turbines with CCS. The company said it will cover the full cost of the power it draws and use an air-cooled system to reduce demand on local water resources.

DatacenterDynamics reported that the site was previously known as Project Jade, and Crusoe paused work there "at the request of our customer". Local reports said Google subsidiary Jupiter Star Holdings is now developing the campus, and the project is expected to be finished by 2031.

Google estimated that the development will bring hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax revenue to Laramie County and School District 1 over time. The company and its partners held a community meeting in downtown Cheyenne attended by more than 200 residents and are forming a Community Council to address how data center growth is affecting Cheyenne. Cheyenne already has large projects from Microsoft, which broke ground in August 2025, and Meta; Related Digital broke ground on a $1.2 billion data center project for CoreWeave in October 2025, DCD reported.

TradingKey noted that Alphabet shares were down 1.44% at $284.76 as of press time on 5 November, a smaller drop than the Nasdaq Composite's nearly 5% decline. The publication said Democratic midterm wins had raised expectations of limits on data-center construction, but existing computing capacity could become more valuable if new supply is constrained.