Has NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.

Where is NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center located?

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is in Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY.

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NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Wyoming?

Wyoming reported $15.2M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualifying data processing services centers (W.S. § 39-15-105(a)(viii)(S)) for FY2021 (Wyoming Department of Revenue, Excise Tax Division (report to Joint Revenue Interim Committee)). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

8120 Veta Drive · Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY

Source: OpenStreetMap

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is a mapped data center in Laramie County, WY. DataCentersExposed has documented a 101,129 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

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Operator

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Est. capacity

~20-45 MW

Footprint

101,129 sq ft

Utility

Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power

Grid

WACM

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

$70 million supercomputer facility opened 2013 has self-guided multimedia tours Mon-Fri 8-5 Sat 10-4 for you or groups. All about energy saving solar/wind and climate research.

In the news

source: Google News

Data-center discussions in Laramie County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Laramie City Council

Sep 17, 2019 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Wyoming reported $15.2M in Sales/use tax exemption for qualifying data processing services centers (W.S. § 39-15-105(a)(viii)(S)) for FY2021 (Wyoming Department of Revenue, Excise Tax Division (report to Joint Revenue Interim Committee)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

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Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

Good

PM10

Good

PM2.5

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Cheyenne), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$105.7K

People of color

14%

Below poverty

Tract population

4,964

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Freedom Elementary in Cheyenne, is 2.3 mi from this site (333 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.