The Laramie County Planning Commission is eager to put a shovel in the ground on a proposed 800-unit man camp that could house up to 5,600 workers and specialists expected to come with a flood of artificial intelligence and data center construction.
The planners are asking the city of Cheyenne to collaborate on the project, which by size alone could be a city of its own in Wyoming.
The 5,600 workers it could serve would be larger than nearly 85% of the state’s incorporated cities or towns, according to the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division.
According to the agency, that’s larger than the population of 84 of Wyoming’s 99 incorporated places.
With multiple billion-dollar projects converging on the Cheyenne area at once, Laramie County officials say they’re racing against the clock to answer one pressing question: Where will the thousands of incoming workers live?
Laramie County Planning and Development Director Justin Arnold told Cowboy State Daily that the Planning Commission, the city planning department, and project developer Iron Guard Housing recently held a pre-application meeting.
“The county really wants to be able to collaborate with the city on this because there are a lot of moving parts,” Arnold said.
Iron Guard Housing applied to build the man camp on the prairie just outside Cheyenne.
