Follow-up: Microsoft buying 3,200 acres in Cheyenne, Wyoming for datacenter expansion
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-09-29
Following up on her finding that Cheyenne, Wyoming topped Google Trends for every US query, Lily Ray points to Microsoft's April 2026 announcement: the company intends to purchase 3,200 acres in Cheyenne to develop a datacenter, expanding its existing footprint there.
This strengthens the bot-traffic explanation — heavy datacenter activity in a 67K-person town is a plausible source of the anomalous search-volume spikes.
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