A Tale Of Data Centers and Two Wyoming Towns

When it comes to data centers and their future in Wyoming, Evanston and Cheyenne residents are looking at similar engineering diagrams and hearing similar talking points.

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Who controls the water?

Who pays for the power?

How many jobs and who will actually get them?

What does this do to our community, the place where our kids will grow up?

Both communities have packed meeting rooms with standing-room-only crowds with questions scribbled onto notebooks and folders stuffed full of printouts, trailing out into hallways where it’s difficult — if not impossible — to hear. 

But the tone in these communities separated by 359 miles of Interstate 80 across southern Wyoming has been markedly different. 

In Cheyenne, the reaction has been much more strident and emotional than it has been in Evanston. 

Beege Welborn

The issue is already percolating here in Escambia County, FL, when rumors of a data center eyeballing one of our county industrial properties set off a firestorm last week.

Let's just say, judging by the immediate and effusive public reaction, they wouldn't be welcome.

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