Wyoming is still the flagship for a water-efficient data center under development in Evanston, even though the company building it has recently inked a deal to build more of its innovative data centers along Interstate 35 in Texas. And, at the same time, you’ve got new data centers coming online for AI.”That’s in addition to all the new cloud computing centers that are also still needed. That was the motivation for taking a different approach to the data center he plans to build in Wyoming, as well as, eventually, across the nation. Economic analysis of the data center in Evanston, which was performed by University of Wyoming, shows a $3.1 billion economic impact for operation of the data center, looking out to 2032, for Thornock’s project in Uinta County. Uinta has lately been drawing the interest of other data centers, Welling added.