Cheyenne’s Physical Backbone of the Digital Economy

Artificial intelligence doesn’t live in the clouds in the sky. It lives in buildings engineered for extraordinary power density, precision cooling, redundancy, and resilience, like the Related Digital Cheyenne Data Center Campus built by Clayco.

This major campus multi-phase project in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is designed to support up to 300 megawatts of IT capacity, meeting the performance demands of next-generation AI workloads. Phase I alone brings a $1.2 billion investment, anchored by CoreWeave’s long-term lease, a clear signal of the scale and urgency driving modern digital infrastructure.

Behind every advance in AI is infrastructure that must operate flawlessly. Delivering at this level requires early utility coordination, deep MEP engineering expertise, disciplined procurement, and fully integrated execution. In mission-critical environments, fragmentation creates risk. Integration creates an advantage.

At Clayco, we have spent decades building complex, high-performance environments safely, on time, and on budget… where reliability is not optional. Projects like Cheyenne demand alignment from development through construction because power, cooling, schedule, and capital performance are inseparable.

Data centers are not simply technical facilities. They are an economic strategy. Phase is generating over 700 construction jobs and will create approximately 40 permanent operational roles along with additional work maintaining and updating the facilities. It is projected to contribute more than $250 million in tax revenue to the community over 15 years. That revenue strengthens local infrastructure and positions Cheyenne to compete in a digital economy defined by compute and uptime.

The digital economy may feel intangible, but it rests on concrete, steel, megawatts of power, and disciplined teams who understand what it takes to deliver.

AI may be transforming industries, but it still depends on people who know how to build.