The U.S. Air Force is offering to lease about 3,000 acres at five bases to private companies to build artificial intelligence data centers, Stars & Stripes reported.
Over two-thirds of the land — more than 2,000 acres — is at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert north of Los Angeles.
“AI is transforming the modern world, and these data centers are crucial for America to remain at the forefront of innovation,” Robert Moriarty, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary of installations, said in an unpublished news release provided to Defense One.
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