Laramie City Council, Albany County Commission To Discuss Data Centers

The Laramie City Council and the Albany County Commission are scheduled to hold a work session on data centers tonight at 6 p.m.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m.in the city Municipal Operations Center at 4373  North 3rd Street in Laramie.

You can see the meeting agenda here.

The meeting will include a data center summary, slides, and a County Planning Staff Report. Public comment will also be taken.

You can read a briefing on data centers for the Laramie City Council here.

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A post on dcdeployed.com  includes the following: "At Data Centers Deployed LLC, we specialize in conducting comprehensive data center feasibility studies tailored to the unique needs of commercial clients in Albany County, Wyoming."

Data centers have become a hot-button issue in the nearby Cheyenne-Laramie County area, with petition drives underway to force a public vote on a recent city council vote to annex 3,460 acres to clear the way for a Microsoft data center expansion.

A separate petition drive was launched in Cheyenne earlier this year calling for a 12-18 month moratorium on new data centers to allow time to study the impacts of the facilities and possibly to update the rules and regulations governing them.

Data centers have also become a hot topic in Wyoming Gubernatorial and legislative races this year.