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Recent Wyoming data center news

• May 6, 2026

  Power Drives the AI Data Center Boom, but Connectivity Cannot be Overlooked

  An analysis argues that data center operators must prioritize power and optical connectivity for AI.

  • Main point: The piece highlights power and optical connectivity as essential prerequisites for AI, citing Omdia’s forecast that global IT load power capacity will reach 314 GW by 2030 and noting the emergence of the “scale across“ concept (coined in 2025 by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang) which requires 800 Gbps+, low-latency optical links to operate multi-site AI clusters and gigawatt-scale training campuses.
  • Background/details: The article is commentary/analysis (not a formal project announcement). It documents current industry pressures: typical large colocation sites support 50–100 MW, hyperscaler clusters are being planned at gigawatt scale, regional power supply wait times of 2–5 years, and a shift toward remote rural builds (examples: Lancaster PA; Memphis; Columbus, Ohio; rural Georgia; New Mexico; Wyoming) that require long-haul fiber links sometimes up to ~1,000 km. It references trade shows and forums including Metro Connect (Florida), Nvidia’s GTC, OFC, and the Optica Executive Forum.
• May 5, 2026

  New Data Center Developments: May 2026

  Data Center Knowledge published a monthly roundup highlighting global data center project announcements, regulatory moves, and investment commitments driven by hyperscale AI demand.

  • Main announcement: The roundup catalogs multiple concrete project actions including Aligned Data Centers’ Project Caprock (540 MW, 313-acre campus in Hale County, Texas; initial delivery Q1 2027), EdgeCore’s completion of $1.5 billion in financing for two Northern Virginia hyperscale centers, and Yondr Group energizing a 27 MW Toronto facility expected in mid-2026. It also notes major investment commitments such as Digital Realty’s near S$7 billion Singapore plan (S$4.3 billion for new data centers) and AWS increasing planned investment in Mississippi to $25 billion.
  • Context and details: The piece outlines parallel regulatory updates in U.S. states (Maine vetoed a moratorium; Wisconsin revised We Energies tariff rules; North Carolina advanced legislation to require hyperscalers to cover infrastructure costs), workforce and partnership initiatives (Equinix Foundation with ODATA, Cisco, Vertiv launching training in Brazil, cohorts mid-2026), and other regional projects and financings (TikTok €1 billion Finland site; Ark Data Centres >€600 million Barcelona project; Equinix land purchases in South Africa totaling ZAR 890 million).
• May 4, 2026

  Bill to Increase Oversight of BEAD Broadband Grants Filed

  Senate Majority Leader John Thune introduced legislation requiring federal officials to develop tools to track Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) grant recipients and to improve processing timelines for communications infrastructure applications.

  • Main action: The bill would require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information (Arielle Roth) to create tracking tools for BEAD grant recipients and to help executive agencies improve compliance with statutory deadlines for processing communications use applications.
  • Context and details: The measure was introduced in the Senate, referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, lists Sens. Ben Ray Luján and John Barrasso as co-sponsors, is in the early stages of the legislative process, and the text of the bill was not available at the time of publication.
• May 1, 2026

  Scenes from the great data center revolt

  Andy Patrizio reports growing community and political pushback against multiple proposed data center projects across the United States.

  • Widespread local opposition and legal/political actions: Multiple communities have moved from passive concern to active resistance, including a recall of four Festus, Missouri city council members after approval of a $6 billion, 360-acre data center proposal; a citizens’ lawsuit in Hermantown, Minnesota to block a $1.5 billion Google “Project Loon” site; and a coalition in Pennsylvania seeking a three-year moratorium plus legislation (HB 2150, HB 1834, HB 2151) requiring reporting on energy/water use, banning cost-shifting to residents, and a model zoning ordinance.
  • Project specifics and mitigations for two large developments: In Box Elder County, Utah, a Kevin O’Leary–backed hyperscale campus on 40,000 acres plans an initial ~3 GW power need and up to 9 GW at full buildout with on-site power via the Ruby Pipeline (MIDA says “100% of the power will be generated off the Ruby Pipeline”); Wyoming’s Project Jade expanded from 1.8 GW to 2.7 GW (designer says theoretically up to 10 GW) and proposes closed-loop water cooling with initial fill equivalent to ~20 households and ongoing use equivalent to <3 households per year.
• Apr 23, 2026

  TerraPower’s Kemmerer 1 Enters Construction: Timeline of the Natrium Project’s Road to First Power

  TerraPower has announced the official start of construction on Kemmerer Unit 1, its flagship Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor plant, on April 23, 2026.

  • Construction start and project scope: TerraPower announced the official start of construction for Kemmerer Unit 1 on April 23, 2026, following the NRC’s construction permit issued March 4, 2026; the plant is a 345‑MWe sodium‑cooled fast reactor with an integrated molten‑salt energy storage system that can boost output to 500 MW, with a 2030–2031 commercial operation target and an expected mobilization of roughly 1,600 workers and about 250 full‑time staff in operation.
  • Background, funding, and partners: The project was selected under DOE’s ARDP with up to $2 billion in cost‑shared federal support; Bechtel is the EPC contractor (transitioning from early works into field execution); other partners and stakeholders include GE Hitachi, PacifiCorp, a HALEU partnership with Framatome, and a data‑center‑focused agreement with Meta; the NRC permit establishes licensing firsts for a commercial non–light water reactor and uses the LMP risk‑informed approach.
• Apr 22, 2026

  Patented: Verizon’s Signal Spoof Detection at Base Stations and More North Texas Inventive Activity

  Dallas-Fort Worth reported 171 patents granted for the week of March 24 and Verizon was granted a patent for detecting GPS/satellite signal spoofing at cellular base stations.

  • Main announcement: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 171 patents granted for the week of March 24, ranked No. 8 out of 250 U.S. metros; notable individual patent: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (U.S. Patent No. 12587857) for signal spoof detection at base stations using a comparison of a station’s known “true position” with a calculated “real time position” and generating an alert when the distance exceeds a threshold. Named inventors on the Verizon patent are Jerry Gamble, Jr. (Grapevine, TX) and Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, TX).
  • Background/details: The article is a patent roundup (Dallas Invents) listing utility and design patents connected to North Texas; it enumerates classification counts (G: Physics 53; H: Electricity 49; DESIGN: 31, etc.), top assignees (e.g., Texas Instruments Inc. 17; Traxxas L.P. 17; Samsung 8; Verizon 6) and highlights many granted patents across domains (telecom, AI/ML, medical devices, robotics, energy, networking). For each patent the report includes patent number, inventor(s), assignee, application file/date, and abstract (no speculative outcomes).
• Apr 21, 2026

  Microsoft Builds for Two Worlds: Sovereign Cloud and AI Factories

  Microsoft is accelerating hyperscale data center and AI factory expansion, leasing and acquiring capacity in Texas and Norway, acquiring land in Cheyenne, and investing in Fairwater and other campuses.

  • Primary action: Microsoft is leasing and acquiring premium AI capacity (e.g., a roughly 700-megawatt Abilene, Texas project and capacity in Narvik, Norway), acquiring ~3,200 acres in Cheyenne for future data center development, and advancing its Fairwater campus investments (initial and second-phase commitments totaling >$7 billion in Wisconsin). These moves are announced as concrete transactions and site plans (leases, land intent to acquire, and campus construction timelines).
  • Background and details: The company reported record quarterly capex of $37.5 billion (Jan 2026 cycle) with a $625 billion cloud backlog (about 45% tied to OpenAI), committed $3.3 billion to Fairwater phase 1 and $4 billion to phase 2, and is deploying 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips in Narvik building on a prior $6.2 billion regional commitment. Microsoft also pledged a “community-first” approach: paying full utility costs, replenishing more data center water than consumed, and publishing region-level water data.
• Apr 20, 2026

  BYOP Moves to the Center of Data Center Strategy

  Data Center Frontier analyzes the growing adoption of “bring your own power” (BYOP) strategies by data center developers and hyperscalers.

  • Main finding: BYOP (onsite natural gas, modular fuel cells, co-located plants, and future advanced nuclear) is being adopted to accelerate energization, reduce grid-related costs, and close the time-to-power gap; modeling from Camus, Encoord, and Princeton’s ZERO Lab suggests a 500 MW data center using a hybrid approach could reach full operation 3–5 years faster and reduce grid-related costs by roughly $78 million per GW.
  • Context and examples: Live projects and corporate moves illustrate implementation: Crusoe + Engine No. 1 JV expected to draw on roughly 4.5 GW; Crusoe ordered 29 LM2500XPRESS units (~1 GW); Meta El Paso includes 366 MW behind-the-meter gas; xAI received approval for 41 turbines (1.2 GW) in Mississippi. The article documents permitting, equipment orders, turbine backlog pressures (GE Vernova ~80 GW backlog), and regulatory/community scrutiny (El Paso, Memphis/Southaven, PJM).
• Apr 17, 2026

  AI Infrastructure Brief: Power, Capital, and the Feeling That Something Is Tightening

  Matt Vincent (Data Center Frontier) summarized the week’s announcements showing an accelerating AI data-center buildout paired with mounting power and coordination constraints.

  • Main observation: The industry is prioritizing power and speed: major deals and project announcements include Bloom Energy and Oracle planning up to 2.8 GW of deployment, Aligned Data Centers breaking ground on a 540 MW Project Caprock, an EdgeConneX affiliate proposing a 430 MW natural gas plant in New Albany, Ohio, proposals for 2 GW in New Mexico and 1.2 GW in Irwin County, Georgia, and Microsoft expanding datacenter operations in Cheyenne. The Maine legislature passed a temporary, exemption-inclusive ban on data centers, signaling emerging social-license constraints.
  • Capital and implementation details: Financial moves include Switch raising $768 million via ABS, Fluidstack reported in talks for a $1 billion round at an $18 billion valuation, and Jane Street signing a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave; CoreWeave also expanded a multi-year relationship with Anthropic. Utilities are signing long-term power agreements (e.g., NiSource with Alphabet and expanded ties with Amazon). AWS has launched “Project Houdini” to accelerate construction timelines. All items are factual recaps of announcements and reports from the week (no speculative outcomes included).
• Apr 9, 2026

  From Reactor Designs to Real Projects: SMRs Enter the Execution Era as AI Power Demand Accelerates

  Data Center Frontier reports that the SMR story in early 2026 has moved from reactor design discussion to concrete industrial execution focused on permits, fuel, supply chains, financing, and customer traction.

  • Main announcement / action: Through Q1 2026 (notably March), multiple vendors advanced from partnership announcements to tangible progress: TerraPower secured an NRC construction permit for Natrium; Holtec had its LWA docketed for two SMR-300 units at Palisades and is pursuing preliminary construction and a partnership with Hyundai Engineering & Construction (aiming at up to 10 GW in North America); X-energy confidentially filed for an IPO (Reuters, March 20) and signed MOUs with Talen Energy (evaluating multiple four-unit Xe-100 deployments) and IHI to strengthen U.S.-Japan supply chains.
  • Background and other details: Vendors are addressing three execution constraints: regulatory progress, manufacturing and fuel ecosystems (e.g., NuScale expanded its Framatome fuel partnership and planned U.S. production at Richland; Oklo and Centrus plan HALEU-related joint activities at Piketon, Ohio; Kairos secured a HALEU contract with DOE), and customer alignment (growing emphasis on industrial users, utilities, and data-center-driven load). Additional milestones: GE Hitachi advanced BWRX-300 deployment work (Step 2 UK GDA, MoUs in Southeast Asia and Poland) and Rolls-Royce SMR received a UK Justification Decision and partnered on supply-chain and control-systems work.