Data Center Construction in Wyoming

Data center shells and campus sites in Wyoming: heavy slabs, tilt-wall envelopes, utility corridors and phased delivery near Cheyenne, Casper and I-80.

Meta's 715,000 square foot data center on South Greeley Highway (US 85) shows the scale this market now builds at. Announced July 2, 2024 at $800 million, it sits on 960 acres in the High Plains Business Park, with more than 1,000 skilled trade jobs projected at peak construction and an opening scheduled by 2027. Microsoft's first Cheyenne data center sits north of the Walmart Distribution Center near I-80 and I-25. Cheyenne LEADS' CEO has said data center companies there have invested a combined $3.1 billion, counting from 2012. We build for that market.

A data center is a warehouse with a very different set of priorities. The shell is large, simple and repeated, which is where tilt-wall and heavy slab experience matters. Inside, the tenant brings power, cooling and security systems that are designed and specified by the owner. We handle the site, the foundations, the slab, the structure, the envelope and the civil work, and we coordinate with the owner's mission-critical team and equipment vendors so the building is ready when their gear arrives.

The corridor matters here too. Data-adjacent logistics follows these campuses: staging yards for racks and electrical gear, receiving docks and storage for spare parts, and truck access that handles oversize loads. Wyoming's open land, wind and cold weather are part of the site story, and we plan the building and the laydown areas around them. Where a developer wants a powered shell that a user finishes later, we deliver that approach as well.

Cheyenne is where the infrastructure shows up first

Behind the headline number is a lot of civil work in Cheyenne. Cheyenne LEADS delivered infrastructure to the 1,100-acre High Plains Business Park between April 2024 and December 2025: two sanitary sewer mains, one water main, a new 4.5-mile road and a US Highway 85 traffic signal, in seven bid packages that created 246 construction jobs. That work was 100 percent privately funded by Meta and opened an additional 2,800 acres to the south for future development.

Cheyenne Business Parkway offers 900 acres inside city limits with high-volume natural gas, electricity and redundant fiber in place, and it lists EchoStar and Microsoft among its tenants. Away from Cheyenne, Prometheus Hyperscale's 1.25 gigawatt campus on 506 acres of ranchland about 12 miles east of Evanston on the south side of I-80 shows the same pattern in the southwest corner. Uinta County commissioners approved it unanimously and its permit carries about 30 conditions. As of late August 2026, construction had not begun.

Power, fiber and the site before the shell

On a data center project, utility capacity drives site selection. Power service size, substation timing, natural gas for on-site generation and fiber routes decide whether a site works long before the shell is designed. Casper's airport business park offers one example of how fiber gets to a site: the Wyoming Business Council approved $617,483 for Natrona County to install approximately 30,000 linear feet of fiber optic cable in and around the airport business park. Mills has franchise agreements with several telecom providers to build fiber networks.

Water and drainage matter too. Cooling designs vary, and the storm and wastewater plan has to match the tenant's approach and the city or county's review. We bring the civil engineer, utility representatives and the owner's data center designer into the same meeting early, so the pad, the road and the utility corridors are set before earthwork starts. A late change to a substation location can ripple through grading, security fencing and truck access.

Phasing a campus

Hyperscale projects rarely build all at once. A campus is usually delivered in phases, with the first data hall, the electrical yard and the support buildings coming first and additional halls following as demand grows. The Prometheus project, for example, anticipates construction beginning within six months of final permitting and taking four to five years. We lay out the site so later phases can build without disturbing the operating ones.

That means separate haul routes, fenced construction zones, temporary utilities that do not interrupt the live building and a security plan that treats the construction area like a controlled space. We also plan crane pads and laydown yards that survive a Wyoming spring thaw. A schedule that expects wind days, freezing concrete and lead times for switchgear and generators is a schedule that holds. Spec shell delivery and powered-shell options let a developer lease space while the tenant's own fit-out is still being designed.

What we build on a data center site

Our scope on a data center project concentrates on the building you can see and the ground under it. Mass grading, utilities, building pads, heavy structural slabs, wall systems, roofing and the exterior envelope all belong to a general builder. Equipment pads for generators, chillers and transformers get thicker slabs, dense reinforcement and tight tolerances, and the cable trenches and duct banks between them need careful coordination.

Tilt-wall construction is a natural fit for the walls because the panels go up fast and they resist impact and fire. Insulated metal panel is the alternative for lighter halls. We pair either with a roof designed for the heavy rooftop and mechanical loads these buildings carry. Our build-to-suit approach for a single user also works for a data hall where the tenant has a prototype.

The buildings that support a campus

A data center campus includes more than the data halls. There are security gatehouses, operations and office buildings, maintenance shops, spare-parts warehouses, loading docks and sometimes a training space. Many of those are simple steel or tilt-wall buildings that look like a flex or light-industrial building, and we coordinate their civil, concrete and enclosure packages through a shared schedule.

The campus also pulls in neighbors. A developer holding land near a hyperscale site may want logistics space for equipment delivery and staging, and local trade contractors need yards and shops. We have the know-how to build those supporting buildings quickly. A developer or REIT can phase them against lease-up, and we price the support buildings as a package so they don't compete with the main campus for labor.

Site a Wyoming data center

Send us the power target, the acreage and the phasing plan. We will return a site and shell approach, a utility coordination plan and a schedule that holds up through a Wyoming winter.

Plan Your Data Center Construction Project

Send the town, the site, the building size, the clear height, the dock count and the schedule. We will review the scope against the local snow, wind and frost values and follow up with next steps.