Cheyenne / committee no recommendation / motion died for second

Cheyenne is the weakest of the four outcomes for the pause camp. A motion failing to get a second in committee is the procedural equivalent of zero councilors other than the sponsor being willing to publicly support advancing the proposal. The 'no recommendation' status now sends the proposal to the full council with the political weight of explicit committee disapproval — not a path that typically converts to an enacted moratorium. The 70-data-centers-in-planning number is the key economic context: Cheyenne is the densest single-metro data center pipeline in the Mountain West (driven by Microsoft's existing Cheyenne campus + the Black Hills Energy interruptible-load tariff + Wyoming's no-state-income-tax structure), and the construction workforce inside city limits is large enough to dominate council meetings. The split between residents and construction workers is the structural Cheyenne dynamic: this is a working-class city where data center construction jobs are a meaningful share of local employment, which makes the moratorium politics much harder than in a tech-employment city like Denver. Sources: Cap City News 'After hours of public input, data center moratorium fails to get Cheyenne committee recommendation'; Wyoming News 'Committee makes no recommendation on data center moratorium; public comment split'; Cowboy State Daily 'Cheyenne Residents Push For 12-Month Moratorium On Data Centers'; Wyoming Public Media 'Wyoming's capital city considers pause for new data centers'.

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