Air Force offers federal land for private-sector AI data centers

When the current US President is a land developer! 😊

"In an unusual move to boost President Donald Trump’s ambitious AI agenda, the Air Force is now offering to lease federal land to private companies seeking to build high-powered data centers.

This use of federal land was envisaged in Trump’s Executive Order 14318, issued in July, which set out to speed up federal permitting for new AI data centers. But the Air Force announcement is the first concrete step towards that effort by the Defense Department.

Two-thirds of the land for lease is at the massive Edwards Air Force Base complex in California, the service’s largest installation by land area and an Air Force Materiel Command outpost. All told, the Request For Lease Proposal (RFLP), issued Oct. 15 and added to on Oct. 21, makes available 3,101 acres of “underutilized” federal land at five active Air Force bases across the country ..."

Air Force offers federal land for private-sector AI data centers - Breaking Defense "Now available for “fair market value” are over 3,000 acres of land on five Air Force bases, two-thirds of it at Edwards AFB alone."