Microsoft Announces Planned 3,200-Acre Land Purchase For Red State Data Center Expansion

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Noel Joshua Hadley

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it intends to purchase approximately 3,200 acres of land in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to expand its data center footprint.

According to Cowboy State Daily, the expansion will “effectively triple its physical footprint in Wyoming’s capital city.”

Cowboy State Daily shared further:

The announcement comes amid simmering debates about data center impacts to energy costs and water usage, as well as what kind of economic development best fits the Cowboy State.

Microsoft officials told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday that they plan to buy about 3,200 acres on the south edge of Cheyenne, which is roughly 5 square miles.

That will triple Microsoft’s current footprint, which includes 11 operational data centers and three more that are under construction spread across four campuses.

The purchase involves two pieces of land, one 200-acre parcel located in Bison Business Park on Wapiti Trail east of South Greeley Highway, and an adjacent 3,000-acre parcel accessible from Wapiti Trail.

The announcement is a continued commitment to growth in Cheyenne, Microsoft spokeswoman Rima Alaily told Cowboy State Daily. She is vice president and general counsel for Microsoft infrastructure and legal affairs.

“We built our first data center in Cheyenne back in 2012, more than a decade ago,” she said. “At the time, we were really attracted by the city’s high-skilled workforce, its infrastructure and its real, thriving energy industry.

“I think today, the investment that we’re making is really a commitment to continued growth in Cheyenne for those same reasons. They continue to be true.”

“Microsoft has committed over $68M in completed and future off-site infrastructure improvements across Cheyenne. Projects like roadway and storm sewer improvements, trail roadway and greenway improvements, new pump stations, and improved municipal water infrastructure are critical for datacenter operation, but they also make up the infrastructure systems that Cheyenne residents use every day,” Microsoft stated in a release.

“This is the latest in a long line of investments that Microsoft has brought to the city of Cheyenne as a member of our community since 2012,” said Mayor Patrick Collins.

“Microsoft recognizes the strength of our city’s workers, infrastructure and economy. This expansion represents the next decade of opportunity and tax revenue that secures the quality of life that residents of our city enjoy,” Collins added.

Oil City News noted:

According to Microsoft, the company was the City of Cheyenne’s top taxpayer in 2025 and was Laramie County’s second top taxpayer, contributing more than $11 million in local property taxes. The tech giant emphasized that it will not accept local property tax incentives for the new campus.

“We’ve made a commitment nationally that we will not rely on local abatements or incentives as part of our development,” Alaily said, stressing that it is “absolutely critical that the local communities in which we are present do get to see the benefits through tax revenue.”

She added that such revenue can be transformative for community services and institutions like libraries.

Sacred Scripture

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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