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Crusoe and Tallgrass AI data center campus near Cheyenne (Project Jade)
Permitted
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Crusoe and Tallgrass announced in July 2025 an AI data center campus in southeast Wyoming, starting at 1.8 GW and designed to scale to 10 GW, powered mainly by natural gas from Tallgrass's Wyoming assets and sited near Tallgrass's CO2 sequestration hub. Analyst Cleanview identifies it as Project Jade in Laramie County outside Cheyenne and reports a 900 MW fuel cell air permit application, county approval of the Switchgrass Industrial Park, unanimous site plan approval in January 2026, and phase 1 on-site generation since raised to 2.7 GW. Cleanview gives targets of early 2026 for construction and Q2 2027 for first energization. No tenant has been named.
Source record as of 2025-07-24 · Details and sources
On 8 July 2026 the Laramie County Board of Commissioners stated that the data-center development previously known as Project Jade, now Project Tembo, had received governing-body approvals for a zone change to the Switchgrass Industrial Park PUD and for its Commercial Site Plan; the county's Legistar record shows the Board granted the Project Jade site plan permit with conditions on 6 January 2026 (file 26-023). Crusoe has since withdrawn, and Google (d.b.a. Jupiter Star Holdings, LLC) has re-submitted a smaller Site Plan Revision (four buildings and 3,080,000 sq ft instead of five and 4,025,500 sq ft) that the county will process administratively. This supports permitted status for the data-centre development. No building permit, site works or construction of the data centre is established; the Tallgrass power hub works are a separate scope. evidence
Laramie County, Wyoming (Board of County Commissioners) · published 2026-07-08
Location
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Projects (1)
Crusoe and Tallgrass AI data center campus near Cheyenne (Project Jade)
Permitted last observed as of · Development consent
This record reports announced as of 2025-07-24. Tallgrass; Cleanview
Location: Laramie County, Wyoming, US. Laramie County centroid from OpenStreetMap Nominatim. The announcement says only southeast Wyoming near Tallgrass's CO2 sequestration hub; analyst Cleanview places the project in Laramie County outside Cheyenne. No address or parcel was found. Tallgrass; Cleanview
Use: Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 1,800 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · Initial campus | 2025-07-24 | The announcement does not say whether this is IT or facility power. | Tallgrass |
| Power capacity | up to 10,000 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-07-24 | Design scale at full build-out. | Tallgrass |
| Power capacity | 2,700 MW | Planned · Phase · Onsite generation · Phase 1 | 2026-01 | Analyst report, not a company disclosure: Cleanview says phase 1 on-site generation grew from 1.8 GW to 2.7 GW by January 2026, combining up to 900 MW of fuel cells with roughly 1.8 GW of gas turbines. | Cleanview |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crusoe | Developer | Tallgrass; Cleanview | |
| Tallgrass | Power supplier | Contributes its Wyoming natural gas, water and CO2 assets; analyst Cleanview describes the Blackstone-backed company as developing the adjacent power generation facility. | Tallgrass; Cleanview |
| American Electric Power | Power supplier | Analyst report, not a company disclosure: Cleanview says AEP appears to be involved, citing AEP's purchase of up to 900 MW of Bloom fuel cells and a 20-year offtake with an unnamed customer. No company has confirmed the link to this campus. | Cleanview |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-24 | Announced | Actual | Tallgrass | |
| 2025-09-25 | Other | Actual | BFC Power LLC applied to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for a fuel cell facility of up to 900 MW, as reported by analyst Cleanview rather than disclosed by the companies. | Cleanview |
| 2025-10 | Other | Actual | Laramie County approved the Switchgrass Industrial Park, per analyst Cleanview's project timeline; the source does not say whether this was a zoning decision. | Cleanview |
| 2026-01 | Permit approved | Actual | Laramie County commissioners unanimously approved the site plans on January 5-6, 2026, as reported by analyst Cleanview rather than disclosed by the companies. | Cleanview |
| 2026-05-15 | Other | Actual | Tallgrass and Mitsubishi Power announced turbines for a gas-fired Cheyenne Power Hub dedicated to a large data center in the Switchgrass Industrial Park. The release does not name Crusoe. | Tallgrass |
| 2026-Q1 | Construction started | Planned | Target reported by analyst Cleanview, not a company disclosure; no confirmation of a start was found. | Cleanview |
| 2027-Q2 | First operational | Planned | Target for energizing the first buildings as reported by analyst Cleanview, not a company disclosure. | Cleanview |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas onsite | On-site gas generation drawing on Tallgrass's Wyoming natural gas assets, with roughly 1.8 GW of turbines reported by analyst Cleanview. Tallgrass separately announced a Cheyenne Power Hub (about 1,150 MW in phase 1, over $7 billion) for an unnamed data center in the same industrial park. | Tallgrass; Cleanview; Tallgrass |
| Fuel cell | Bloom Energy solid oxide fuel cells of up to 900 MW, per a state air quality application summarized by analyst Cleanview rather than a company disclosure. | Cleanview |
| Other | Future regional renewable projects are expected to supplement gas, and the site's proximity to Tallgrass's CO2 sequestration hub is meant to allow carbon capture. | Tallgrass |
Linking the Cheyenne Power Hub to this campus rests on analyst Cleanview naming the hub as the project's power facility and listing the Switchgrass Industrial Park approval in its timeline; neither Tallgrass release opened here ties the two explicitly. Cleanview's figures and dates are analyst reporting, not company disclosures. No source confirming that data center construction has started was found, so status remains announced.
Sources for these details
- Crusoe and Tallgrass Announce AI Data Center in Wyoming — Tallgrass; 2025-07-24
- Behind-the-meter data centers: Project Jade — Cleanview; publication date not stated
- Tallgrass and Mitsubishi Power Americas Announce Turbine Allocation for Cheyenne Power Hub — Tallgrass; 2026-05-15
- Companies
Source and location review
- Status source
- Laramie County Board of Commissioners memo to residents, 8 July 2026: Project Tembo Data Center Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit evidence row
Laramie County, Wyoming (Board of County Commissioners) · published 2026-07-08 · Government record - Locator
- County or district reference only · Compiled location reference · admin2 evidence
- Source checks
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 111 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 41.27370, -104.72680
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- County or district reference only
- Scope class
- admin2
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- Laramie County centroid from OpenStreetMap Nominatim. The announcement says only southeast Wyoming near Tallgrass's CO2 sequestration hub; analyst Cleanview places the project in Laramie County outside Cheyenne. No address or parcel was found.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- 96e1e9b5
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behind-the-meter data centers: Project Jade Archived copy | Cleanview Analyst report | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other, Milestone: Permit Approved, Power Source: Fuel Cell, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Role: Developer, Role: Power Supplier | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Cleanview | 0515381f406a45d06f37027b84fdde8856b560773ee4b3225fa26bfab78a3417Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Crusoe and Tallgrass Announce AI Data Center in Wyoming Archived copy | Tallgrass Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Announced, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Power Source: Other, Role: Developer, Role: Power Supplier | source-terms-not-recorded | Tallgrass | 9c5181ad40aa33e3e39c6d3480d4638ab5aac2080f9ac0feb62d9a4c8911145cFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Laramie County Board of Commissioners memo to residents, 8 July 2026: Project Tembo Data Center Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit Archived copy | Laramie County, Wyoming (Board of County Commissioners) Government record | Development consent | public-record-source-terms | Laramie County, Wyoming | c451643172a89769285b1b451f70d3c973ab6108f694978662c88490f3793f4eRetained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Tallgrass and Mitsubishi Power Americas Announce Turbine Allocation for Cheyenne Power Hub Archived copy | Tallgrass Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite | source-terms-not-recorded | Tallgrass | 58800ff772badee8fbac90896d7cb1865c2cb68175db847241d75372b08f97f3Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Crusoe and Tallgrass AI data center campus near Cheyenne (Project Jade) [site vcc-site-f6a2889114e99d84b372]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-f6a2889114e99d84b372/
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