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Meta Cheyenne Data Center

Cheyenne, Laramie County, WYDeveloper: Meta

Also known as Project Cosmo, Goat Systems LLC

Under constructionFirst phase under construction and not yet online; city ended the project's industrial wastewater discharges after a 2026 contamination incident
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

Meta is building an $800 million data center, known during development as Project Cosmo, on a 960-acre parcel in the High Plains Business Park in south Cheyenne. It is expected to go online in 2027. In 2026 the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities traced a bacterial contamination of the city's reuse water system to the project's fill-and-flush operations and stopped accepting that wastewater from data centers.

Stated investment
$800 million[1]
more than $800 million (company-stated)
Site size
960 acres[2]
Permanent jobs (promised)
100

Key facts

Size & schedule

Site size960 acres [2]
Source excerpt
“a 960-acre parcel of land in the High Plains Business Park”
Floor area715,000 sq ft [1]
other outlets report 750,000 and roughly 800,000 sq ft
Source excerpt
“715,000 sq ft (66,425 sqm) campus”
Stated investment$800 million [1]
more than $800 million (company-stated)
Source excerpt
“invest more than $800 million”
Permanent jobs (promised)100 [3]
Source excerpt
“will employ 100 operations positions when completed”
Construction jobs1,000 [3]
over 1,000 skilled trades people, temporarily
Source excerpt
“will temporarily employ over 1,000 skilled trades people”
Target completion2027 [2]
Source excerpt
“expected to go online in 2027”

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Power

UtilityCheyenne Light, Fuel & Power (Black Hills Energy) [6]
Utility pages: Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power · data centers and bills
Source excerpt
“Cheyenne, Wyoming, an area served by the company's electric utility, Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power Company”
Power supplyBlack Hills Energy grid, with new resources including renewables (company-stated) [1]
Source excerpt
“work with Black Hills Energy to add new resources to the grid, including renewables”

Water

CoolingFirst phase closed-loop; second phase evaporative [4]
Source excerpt
“The first phase under construction uses a closed-loop cooling system, while the second phase will use evaporative cooling.”
Water permitCheyenne BOPU revoked Goat Systems LLC's industrial discharge privileges for fill-and-flush operations effective March 24, 2026 [5]
Source excerpt
“revoked the company's industrial discharge privileges for those operations effective March 24”

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Water and power

Water

Not disclosed. No source reviewed gives a water figure for this site. The Census does not estimate one.

Power

UtilityCheyenne Light, Fuel & Power (Black Hills Energy) [6]
Power supplyBlack Hills Energy grid, with new resources including renewables (company-stated) [1]

Disclosed figures only, each as the cited source states it. Many are projections or permit limits, not metered use. How data center water and power use is measured, and every disclosed figure →

Timeline

  1. Cowboy State Daily reports Meta is behind the Project Cosmo data center in south Cheyenne [7]

  2. Meta unveils the $800 million Project Cosmo data center [2]

  3. BOPU revokes the company's industrial discharge privileges for fill-and-flush operations [5]

  4. BOPU announces it will no longer accept industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush or closed-loop cooling operations [4]

Issues raised

  • The city found Goat Systems LLC in 'significant noncompliance' with industrial pretreatment rules after Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria contaminated the municipal reuse water system [5]
  • Meta says its contractor Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite [4]

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Meta officially announces data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming
    DatacenterDynamics · Jul 3, 2024 · news
  2. $800 million Project Cosmo unveiled as Meta data center
    Wyoming Tribune Eagle · Jul 2, 2024 · news
  3. Meta announces $800 million data center in Cheyenne
    Wyoming Public Media · Jul 8, 2024 · news
  4. Cheyenne BOPU traces rare bacteria discharge to Meta data center contractor
    Wyoming Tribune Eagle · Jul 2, 2026 · news
  5. Cheyenne Won't Take Data Center Wastewater After Meta Contractor Contaminated System
    Cowboy State Daily · Jul 2, 2026 · news
  6. Black Hills Corp. to Power Meta's New Data Center in Wyoming with Innovative Energy Solutions and Mission-Critical Reliability
    Black Hills Corp. · Jul 11, 2024 · utility
  7. EXCLUSIVE: Meta Coming To Cheyenne; Multibillion-Dollar Data Center Planned
    Cowboy State Daily · May 9, 2024 · news

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Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Meta Cheyenne Data Center. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/meta-cheyenne-wy
MLA“Meta Cheyenne Data Center.” Data Center Census, Sep 23, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/meta-cheyenne-wy.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/meta-cheyenne-wy

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