Army looks to lease out land on 4 military installations for new commercial data centers

Private, public and not-for-profit companies could soon build out and host commercial data centers on U.S. Army installations, as part of a broader Trump administration-led push to expand the nation’s AI and technological infrastructure.

The Army is currently reviewing pitches from businesses that want to lease lots of underutilized land for data center development projects at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

A recent request for proposals and more than a dozen associated materials shed light on the service’s plans to “maximize [its] financial return” by renting out non-excess, available properties for the stand-up of massive, mostly windowless buildings that could power the internet and cloud storage for 50-year terms.

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