Cheyenne's Data Center Boom: A Storage Guide for Contractors

As of mid-2026, the City of Cheyenne reports roughly 10 data centers operational in the area, with five more under construction and nine in various stages of planning. Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Related Digital all have projects in the pipeline or already underway, and the scale of the work has drawn a large number of contractors and trade crews into the area, many of them from out of state. That kind of construction boom creates a real, practical problem: where do tools, equipment, and materials go when the crew working on them is not local and does not have a permanent yard or shop nearby.

A Boom Big Enough to Need Temporary Worker Housing

The scale of the labor demand became national news earlier this year when a developer, Iron Guard Housing, proposed a temporary workforce housing complex for as many as 5,600 workers just outside Cheyenne to support the data center build-out. Whether or not that specific project moves forward, the fact that it was proposed at all says something about how many workers this wave of construction is expected to require, most of them here for months at a time rather than settled locally.

Why This Matters for Storage, Not Just Housing

Workforce housing solves where people sleep. It does not solve where a crew's tools, spare materials, testing equipment, or job-specific gear go when they are not actively on site, especially for smaller subcontractors and trade crews who are not part of the general contractor's own on-site laydown yard. A crew working a multi-month phase of a data center build, then moving to the next phase or the next project, needs somewhere secure and flexible to stage equipment in between, without renting a warehouse or committing to a long-term industrial lease for a job that has a defined end date.

Local Development Isn't Moving in a Straight Line Either

Not every proposed project in this boom has been approved without friction. A 162-acre data center proposal in south Cheyenne recently hit a roadblock when the city's Planning Commission denied part of the request, and there has been public discussion of a possible temporary pause on some data center construction pending further review. For contractors and trade crews, this kind of uncertainty is exactly why committing to a long-term industrial lease or yard rental for a specific project can be riskier than it looks. A month-to-month storage unit carries none of that risk: a crew is never locked into paying for space tied to a project timeline that could shift.

What This Looks Like in Practice

A framing or electrical crew working a data center phase near the Terry Road corridor does not need an entire warehouse to stage its equipment. A well-organized 10x20 drive-up unit holds hand tools, power tools, ladders, folded scaffolding, boxed hardware, and stacked conduit or trim stock, more than enough for a crew's active gear between shifts, without the overhead of an industrial lease. All-Rite Storage's contractor storage page covers sizing this kind of unit in more depth, matching trade type to unit size and covering what does and does not belong in a drive-up space.

Equipment That Rotates With the Work

Beyond hand tools and materials, crews supporting this kind of construction often have equipment that is not needed every day: generators, compressors, specialty testing gear, or seasonal equipment used only during certain phases of a build. Storing that equipment separately from daily-use tools, rather than letting it clutter a job site or a rented trailer, is a similar problem to the one our equipment storage page addresses for homeowners and small operators, just at a larger, project-driven scale.

Why Month-to-Month Terms Fit This Kind of Work

A data center build runs in phases, and a subcontractor's involvement in any one project might last eight weeks or eight months, with real uncertainty about what comes next given how much of this development is still working through local approval. All-Rite Storage's units are all month-to-month, so a crew can rent space for exactly the length of a phase, release it when that phase wraps, and pick up a new unit later without renegotiating a lease every time a project timeline shifts.

If you are part of a crew supporting Cheyenne's ongoing data center construction and need a flexible place to stage tools, materials, or equipment between phases, All-Rite Storage, on Terry Road in Cheyenne, is built around exactly that kind of project-based, month-to-month need.