Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming

Published: April 10, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

Travel just few miles west of bustling Cheyenne, Wyoming, a you\u2019ll find yourself in big-sky country. Tall-grass plains line the highway, snow-packed peaks pierce the sky, and round-edged granite formations jut out of the ground. But in this bucolic scene sits an alien building: a blocky, almost pre-fab structure with a white rotunda, speckled with dozens of windows that look out onto the grounds. Inside, it\u2019s home to two supercomputers that focus on the vast landscape above.