Microsoft to Buy 3,200 Acres in Wyoming for a Data Center

Microsoft intends to buy 3,200 acres of land to develop a data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

• Future expansion made up of adjacent ~200-acre and ~3,000-acre parcels
• Announcement “represents the start of what the company expects to be a multiyear planning and development process”
  • Microsoft says it welcomes opportunities to engage with the community in public hearings
• Has committed $68m in completed and future off-site infrastructure improvements across Cheyenne
• Entered utility partnership with Black Hills Energy, in which power acquisition is guided by a tariff requiring Microsoft to pay for all the infrastructure upgrades and power procured by the utility necessary ...