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NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center

Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming

OperatingNo reception on recordRecord updated September 2, 2026

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is an operating data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming (Laramie County), operated by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). The public record puts it at announced 2012.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Facility type
Data center
Location
Veta Drive, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY, 82009
Coordinates
41.1289, -104.8974
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
2012
Utility
Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power (Black Hills Corporation)
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Hybrid
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
No reception on record
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. October 2012
    Operating
    Computing operations began in October 2012. Source: Wikipedia

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Wind supplies at least 10% of the center's power; the primary grid source is coal.

The facility uses ambient outside air for cooling roughly 96% of the year and specialized cooling-tower equipment otherwise, a seasonal switch between dry and evaporative modes. Water consumption is reported as about 40% lower than a traditional design.

Notes on the record

High-performance computing and data-archival facility in the North Range Business Park, Cheyenne, operated by NCAR for UCAR under a partnership with the State of Wyoming and the University of Wyoming. 153,000 total square feet with 24,000 square feet of raised-floor modules. Coordinates and street are corroborated by the OpenStreetMap building tagged telecom=data_center with operator 'University Corporation for Atmospheric Research'. No megawatt figure is published in the sources read, so no capacity is recorded.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Land area
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Land area
The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center data center in Cheyenne?

Nothing on record as of September 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center data center?

No lawsuit over NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center appears in the record we track as of September 2, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, and how big is it?

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center," updated September 2, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-cheyenne-wy.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-cheyenne-wy, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center - Computational and Information Systems Lab · NCAR/UCAR · retrieved September 2, 2026
  2. 2.NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center · Wikipedia · retrieved September 2, 2026

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