Microsoft plans a $200 million expansion of a data center on the outskirts of Cheyenne that will boost the company’s cloud-computing capacities, Gov. Matt Mead and business-development officials announced Tuesday.
The expansion would create 25 jobs, up from the 25 people who currently work at the facility.
Microsoft began developing the data center in early 2012. Microsoft will have invested $750 million in the facility by the time the latest work is complete. Wyoming will invest $5 million to help build infrastructure at the site. Construction work during the expansion will employ 200 to 600 people, according to the governor’s office.
Other high-tech facilities on Cheyenne’s west side include a National Center for Atmospheric Research supercomputer.
