Air Force officials want private companies to build artificial intelligence data centers on more than 3,000 acres of land on five of its military bases, raising questions about security, ethics, and land use.

The Air Force bases—Davis-Monthan in Ariz., Edwards in Calif., Robins in Ga., Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in N.J., and Arnold in Tenn.—will make “underutilized” land available “for private commercial data center use,” according to an Oct. 15 and Oct. 21 request for lease proposal from the service published online.

“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the forefront of innovation,” Robert Moriarty, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary of installations, said in an unpublished news release provided to Defense One

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