Kanye West demanded Adidas send Yeezy staff to work at a remote ranch in rural Wyoming that then closed down within 6 months, report says

• Kanye West demanded Adidas set up a Yeezy facility in rural Wyoming, Bloomberg reported.
• The company sent a number of employees to work in the state, but the facility closed after six months.

Adidas relocated a number of staff working on Kanye West's Yeezy line to a new facility near the rapper's home that he demanded be built and subsequently closed after just six months, Bloomberg reported.

An Adidas employee, who spoke to the news outlet anonymously, said that the rapper wanted a new workplace near his $14 million ranch in Cody, Wyoming.

The move required millions of dollars worth of machinery to be transported, as well as numerous Adidas staff being relocated, Bloomberg reported, citing the employee.

It is not clear how many of the roughly 90 Adidas staffers employed to work on Yeezy were relocated to Wyoming, and Adidas did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

The rapper, now known as Ye, bought the ranch in 2019, and set about developing it into a "Yeezy campus." He described his vision as a "paradigm shift for humanity" in a GQ interview, while the Daily Mail reported he was building several dome-like structures.

Later that year, West announced plans to move the Yeezy headquarters to Cody from Calabasas, California – the Los Angeles suburb where he formerly shared a home with ex-wife Kim Kardashian. West had previously recorded his 2018 album "Ye," in Wyoming.

At the time, local publication Cody Enterprise reported that plans were being reviewed to convert an 11,300 square foot warehouse into a Yeezy "sample lab," employing around 20 workers. Per Hypebeast, 30 staff already worked at West's ranch near Cody.

West put one of his two Wyoming ranches up for sale for $11 million in 2021, prompting reports that he was turning back on his "Yeezy campus" plans. However, the listing was taken down after nearly a year on the market, per the New York Post.

The Bloomberg report now suggests that the rapper's Wyoming vision lasted less than half a year.