Crusoe's Project Jade Data Center Campus Gets Approval in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Daud Shiraz
Wyoming has greenlit another major data center development. Last week, Laramie County’s Board of Commissioners approved the site plans for Crusoe’s Project Jade data center campus and Tallgrass’ adjacent BFC Power/Cheyenne Power Hub energy generation project. The two projects were reviewed together as a single, co-located development, a 5 building data center campus designed to be supported by a dedicated on-site power plant.
Source: Kimley-Horn. Document retrieved from Laramie County, Wyoming
What Was Approved?
Crusoe: Project Jade (data center campus)
Project Jade is planned as an initial 1.8 GW data center campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming, which can scale up to 10 GW in the future according to a press release by Crusoe.
Key project parameters:
- Planned capacity: 1.8 GW
- Planned buildings: 5 (plus supporting infrastructure)
- Building size: 805,300 sqft each (five buildings total ~4.0M sqft)
- Data Center campus land area: 600 acres
- Location: Switchgrass Industrial Park
Source: Kimley-Horn. Document retrieved from Laramie County, Wyoming
Tallgrass: BFC Power and Cheyenne Power Hub (power generation)
Tallgrass’ project is a dedicated power plant approved next to the data center development. It is designed to supply large-scale, on-site power for hyperscale loads.
Key project parameters:
- Planned generation capacity: 2.7 GW
- Site area: 659 acres
- Configuration: two natural gas power plants (plus supporting infrastructure)
- Location: Switchgrass Industrial Park
Source: Kimley-Horn. Document retrieved from Laramie County, Wyoming
Project Timeline
Reported expectations include:
- Construction to start in Q1 2026
- First buildings expected to be operational by Q4 2027
Source: Board of Commissioner meeting Laramie County, Wyoming
Bottom line
Crusoe is already developing two large AI data center campuses in Texas, including Stargate Abilene (with Oracle and OpenAI) and Project Goodnight (end tenant not yet disclosed). Project Jade adds a new, separate campus in Wyoming with 1.8 GW of planned data center capacity, making it one of Crusoe’s largest announced developments to date. There is also a notable design linkage between Crusoe’s Wyoming and Texas work. The Wyoming filings show a 5 building layout of ~805,300 sqft per building, which is quite similar to the newer “rectangular” building footprint Crusoe is using at the Goodnight campus.
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