Laramie County, Wyoming

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

2.6 GW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Crusoe

Resi rate Δ (Black Hills Energy)

+13.3%

Home price Δ (3y)

+5.6%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+15.4%

Population (2024 ACS)

101K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$80,173

Key takeaways

Cheyenne has 64,976 residents. The three announced campuses (Crusoe, Meta, Microsoft) add 2.6 GW of load to a city that today draws roughly 250 MW for everything else.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 (Cheyenne city, WY) + data/sites/data_centers.csv
Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power residential rates rose from 15.0 to 17.0 cents per kWh from 2021 to 2023, a 13.3% jump worth about $215 per year on a typical household bill. The utility has only 39,954 residential customers across the city.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power, WY)
The Crusoe and Tallgrass Wyoming campus is designed to scale from 1.8 GW to 10 GW and runs primarily on natural gas tied to Tallgrass's existing CO2 sequestration hub. None of that power touches the residential grid.Source: sources[0] (Crusoe/Tallgrass press release)
Laramie County property tax assessments rose 15.4% over three years against a $77,884 county median income, the steepest property-tax move in any top-10 AI county.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 56021) + Census ACS 2023 B19013

13.5% of Laramie County adults are veterans, the third-highest veteran share in this batch behind Stafford and Prince William. F E Warren Air Force Base sits inside Cheyenne city limits and anchors the same security-cleared workforce that Stargate counties outside Texas rarely capture.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (FIPS 56021)
Laramie County is 82.2% white, 15.7% Hispanic, 2.2% Black, and 1.1% Asian. The Hispanic share is comparable to Utah County's 13.9% and Loudoun's 14.2%, larger than neighboring Wyoming counties would suggest.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 56021)
Only 9.9% of Laramie residents live below the poverty line and unemployment is 3.1%. Manufacturing employs just 3.2% of workers, the smallest manufacturing base of any top-10 AI county in this batch.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B23025, C24050 (FIPS 56021)
90.8% of Laramie County households have a home broadband subscription and median gross rent is $1,080 per month. 84.4% of residents lived in the same house one year earlier, the lowest residential stability in this batch and the migration signal that the Crusoe, Meta, and Microsoft builds are already producing.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002, B25064, B07001 (FIPS 56021)