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Posted on 07/25/2026 12:39:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Army has warned that a House-approved defense measure aimed at restricting certain foreign-made components in commercial data centers built on War Department land could jeopardize more than $1.3 billion in planned private investment as the Pentagon expands its data center footprint.
The provision, sponsored by Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., was added to the House Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act before the bill passed the House this week.
If enacted, the measure would bar companies leasing War Department land from installing or operating data center equipment containing certain printed circuit boards, advanced semiconductors, chipsets, and other components the Pentagon considers national security risks because of where they are manufactured.
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Why must Army have data centers ?? cmon.
getting out of control
Not really. AI for tactical planning and campaign scenarios and logistics, let alone an analysis point for all the intel the military has is a very real thing.
What gets me is the military should know, up front, that using insecure chips from a country actively opposed to America is... BAD and prone to sabotage if not its own intel gathering capabilities.
You just don’t get it.
We must not fall behind in the data center race!
Or any other race.
And if that means we must borrow and spend until the country is hopelessly bankrupt, so be it.
/s, of course
“If enacted, the measure would bar companies leasing War Department land from installing or operating data center equipment containing certain printed circuit boards, advanced semiconductors, chipsets, and other components the Pentagon considers national security risks because of where they are manufactured.”
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Sounds reasonable.
AI is being used in many military applications, more all the time.
The feds own millions of square miles of empty desert land that could be used for data centers powered by solar farms.
roughly 1.5 square mile solar farm will create 1 gigawatt of power. They can put those up in under a year, get around current opposition to data farms,and provide the feds with an interesting source of revenue.
So what?
Over 80% of Nevada is controlled by the federal government. Plenty of land for all sorts of military uses.
agree. they even have brackish water under many of those deserts that could be desalinated.
the feds also own desert lands in az, nv, nm ut and tx with brackish water.
The Army is far more advanced than most people realize, the army and its science labs are still the people who handle the medical science of Ebola and such, I believe it was army missiles that finally got us into space, and of course the atom bomb and its delivery, and so on.
“they even have brackish water under many of those deserts that could be desalinated.”
The brine produced by the desalination process is not benign.
Desalination works but it is not without economic and environmental problems.
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