Laramie County, WY

June 14, 2026

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Five Mandates, One Deadline: Abbott Hands PUCT the 2027 Blueprint

Project Jade in Laramie County lost anchor tenant Crusoe but Tallgrass is still building 2.7 GW of on-site natural gas generation under a bring-your-own-power model, with Black Hills Corp. having already put $200 million into the substation and construction underway.

June 1, 2026

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Tax Abatements Lose the Room. Power, Water, and Cost Causation Take Over.

Microsoft's Wyoming expansion (3,200 acres in Laramie County, plus two Cheyenne site applications) ran into the question developers can't dodge: what happens to cooling water after it picks up chemicals and salts?

May 5, 2026

Cheyenne organizer Heather Madrid's petition seeks 7,000 signatures against a backdrop of up to 70 Laramie County projects, with Councilman Larry Wolfe acknowledging the term "data center"

April 7, 2026

Crusoe Energy secured Laramie County, Wyoming approval for a 1.8GW campus with 10GW eventual scale, backed by Tallgrass's $7 billion, 2.7GW gas-fired power hub.

March 31, 2026

Wyoming greenlit Crusoe Energy's 1.8 GW initial phase (expandable to 10 GW) in Laramie County, and the state convenes a closed-door Jackson summit April 1-2 to pitch hyperscalers on its tax-free, cold-climate, nuclear-backed advantages.