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Reported geography
Source-reported location for NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
- Address and locality
- Veta Drive · Cheyenne · Laramie County · Wyoming · 82009
- Official metro area
- Cheyenne, WY
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 2 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001029
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power (Black Hills Corporation)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Hybrid
- Announced
- 2012
Provider notes
Energy. Wind supplies at least 10% of the center's power; the primary grid source is coal.
Water. The facility uses ambient outside air for cooling roughly 96% of the year and specialized cooling-tower equipment otherwise, a seasonal switch between dry and evaporative modes. Water consumption is reported as about 40% lower than a traditional design.
What the source record says
High-performance computing and data-archival facility in the North Range Business Park, Cheyenne, operated by NCAR for UCAR under a partnership with the State of Wyoming and the University of Wyoming. 153,000 total square feet with 24,000 square feet of raised-floor modules. Coordinates and street are corroborated by the OpenStreetMap building tagged telecom=data_center with operator 'University Corporation for Atmospheric Research'. No megawatt figure is published in the sources read, so no capacity is recorded.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2012-10 · source-reported operational
Computing operations began in October 2012.
Sources and attribution
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- NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center - Computational and Information Systems Lab · NCAR/UCAR
- NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center · Wikipedia
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center-cheyenne-wy. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center
- Operator’s facility code
- NWSC
- Address as published
- Cheyenne, WY
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
Opened: 2012.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001029
Licensed directory row.
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Veta Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82009 · Laramie (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2012
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2012-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power (Black Hills Corporation)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Hybrid
Provider label.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-02
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Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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