Site Layer 4 Data Center Campus Awaiting decision
Site Layer 4, a New York-based firm, has applied to rezone 5,344 acres of ranchland on the Lazy V Six Ranch northeast of Wheatland for a $26 billion data center campus with co-located utility-scale energy generation. The project promises 300 jobs and substantial tax revenue but neighbors are concerned about water, wildlife, and viewshed impacts. More than 400 public comments were received. Planning and Zoning Commission hearing rescheduled to August 26, 2026, with County Commissioners hearing on September 2.
Key facts
- Operator
- Site Layer 4
- Size
- 5,344 ac
- Location
- Wheatland (Platte County), Wyoming
- First proposed
- 2026-07-13
- Application filed
- 2026-07-13
- Hearing
- 2026-08-26
- Stage today
- Awaiting decision
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Heard 2026-08-26; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.
What has happened so far (3 events)
- 2026-07-13announcement
Rezoning application revealed for 5,344-acre data center campus on Lazy V Six Ranch. · source - 2026-08-26hearing
Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing at Agriplex, Wheatland. · source - 2026-09-02hearing
Platte County Commissioners public hearing at Agriplex, Wheatland. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
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 Wheatland (Platte County) 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 Wheatland (Platte County) 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 42.050, -104.950 — 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.
Around here
- Wyoming briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Wyoming
- Meta Cheyenne — Cheyenne, 63 mi In review
- Microsoft Cheyenne Expansion — Cheyenne
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Site Layer 4 Data Center Campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/platte-county-wy-site-layer-4, 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.
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