Project dossier · Wheatland (Platte County), Wyoming

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.

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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.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

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.

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.

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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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