Mystery Mega Data Center in Cheyenne to Suck Up 5x More Power Than Every Home in Wyoming

Cheyenne is about to get a new neighbor — and this one’s bringing an appetite for electricity that makes the rest of Wyoming look like it’s running on AA batteries, the Economic Times reports.

A massive AI data center is planned for the capital city, a joint venture between energy firm Tallgrass and AI data center builder Crusoe. When it’s up and running, the facility will start by pulling 1.8 gigawatts of juice, with plans to scale to a mind-melting 10 gigawatts. For perspective, that’s over five times the electricity used by every single home in the entire state combined.

But here’s the kicker — nobody’s saying who it’s for.

Neither Tallgrass nor Crusoe is naming the client, but plenty of industry watchers are pointing fingers at OpenAI. The company recently teamed up with Crusoe on a Texas facility billed as the world’s largest data center, part of OpenAI’s hush-hush “Stargate” project. That one reportedly draws about a gigawatt of power, and OpenAI has made no secret of wanting several gigawatts more in the near future. Still, Crusoe is keeping lips sealed on whether Cheyenne is the next Stargate stop.

With that kind of demand, the center won’t be plugged into the public power grid. Instead, it’ll run on its own dedicated supply — reportedly a mix of natural gas and renewables. That should help keep local lights from flickering, but experts say it could still ripple through Wyoming’s energy market, possibly nudging utility prices upward or shifting how much power the state can export.

While the client is a mystery, the tech inside likely won’t be. Experts say the facility will probably be packed with the fastest CPUs money can buy, packed into high-density racks designed for deep learning and massive model training. That means nonstop cooling systems and an unrelenting need for power.

State officials are cheering the project as a boost for Wyoming’s economy — especially for natural gas — but some are wary. If more power-hungry AI centers pop up, they could reshape the state’s role as a major energy exporter.

For now, all anyone knows for sure is this: Wyoming’s about to host one of the hungriest data centers in the world, and its mysterious owner is keeping everyone guessing.