Meta Cheyenne In review
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~152 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 152 MW
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
- Stage today
- In review
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
What has happened so far (10 events)
- 2023-11-07permit
The Cheyenne Public Services Committee approved a development agreement for 'Project Cosmo,' a data center development by Goat Systems LLC on 945 acres in the High Plains Business Park. · source - 2024-05-09coverage
As of this date Meta had not yet been publicly named as the company behind Project Cosmo/Goat Systems LLC, though Fortis Construction had roughly 800 workers on site clearing the 945-acre parcel and a public announcement was planned for early July 2024. · source - 2024-07-02announcement
Meta formally announced its Cheyenne data center: an $800 million, 715,000-square-foot campus at High Plains Business Park expected to support about 100 jobs, with over 1,000 construction workers at peak and a 2027 online target, built by Fortis Construction with Black Hills Energy supplying grid resources. · source - 2025-05-26vote
Cheyenne City Council voted 8-1 against a proposed 12-month moratorium on new data center development, after nearly four hours of public comment citing water supply, noise, farmland conversion, and pace-of-change concerns. · source - 2026-01-15environmental
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities discovered white bacterial colonies during routine wastewater system testing, later traced to Meta's Cheyenne Data Center contractor. · source - 2026-02-23environmental
The Wyoming Public Health Laboratory identified the bacteria found in Cheyenne's reclaimed water system as Cupriavidus gilardii, an unusual soil bacterium. · source - 2026-03-24environmental
Investigators confirmed the same bacteria was present at Meta's predischarge storage tank, and Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities revoked Goat Systems LLC's industrial discharge permit for the Meta data center. · source - 2026-06-26environmental
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities issued its first public statement on the contamination, about four months after the bacteria was first discovered, citing the Meta data center operator for 'serious noncompliance' with wastewater discharge standards and a $10,000 fine. · source - 2026-07-02environmental
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities announced it would stop accepting industrial wastewater from data-center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations citywide following the Meta contamination incident. · source - 2026-07-20lawsuit
Meta/Goat Systems filed a six-page appeal disputing the source of the bacteria contamination, asking the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities for a contested-case hearing and a refund of the $10,000 fine. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (1 filed · 11 places to look)
Permits already on file (1)
Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.
- 2023-11-07
The Cheyenne Public Services Committee approved a development agreement for 'Project Cosmo,' a data center development by Goat Systems LLC on 945 acres in the High Plains Business Park. · source
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Wyoming DEQ — Air Quality DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Wyoming DEQ — Air Quality Division for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Cheyenne planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Cheyenne property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- Southwest Power Pool (Plains) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Wyoming Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 41.140, -104.820 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Recent news
11 stories tracked since 2026-05-14 across 7 outlets. 7× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. 3× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. Most recent: “Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes institute 3-year data center ban” (KGOU, 2026-10-06).
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes institute 3-year data center ban
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes institute 3-year data center ban
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes institute 3-year data center ban
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes pass data center ban
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to consider data center ban on tribal land this weekend
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to consider data center ban on tribal land this weekend
- Cheyenne City Council moves proposed Cox Ranch data center project toward final vote
- Wyoming's Top Election Official Warns Cheyenne City Council Over Annexation Petition
- Public hearing on proposed data center annexation fuels debate at City Council
- Full Speed Ahead For Cheyenne Data Centers As Council Rejects Moratorium
- Georgia 30 Million Gallon Water Grab Puts Cheyenne Data Centers Under New Scrutiny
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 11 headlines archived.
Around here
- Cheyenne community briefing — Rejectedterm not documented
- Wyoming briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Wyoming
- Site Layer 4 Data Center Campus — Wheatland (Platte County), 63 mi Awaiting decision
- Microsoft Cheyenne Expansion — Cheyenne
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Cheyenne”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-cheyenne, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).