# Army Data Center Enhanced Use Lease Program **Aliases:** Army Data Center EUL Program **Entity class:** Army public-private infrastructure initiative ## Definition The **Army Data Center Enhanced Use Lease Program** uses [[wiki/Enhanced Use Lease|Enhanced Use Leases]] to place privately financed, constructed, operated, maintained, and decommissioned commercial hyperscale data centers on Army land. The 2026 conditional selections paired [[wiki/Carlyle Group|Carlyle]] with [[wiki/Fort Bliss|Fort Bliss]] and [[wiki/CyrusOne|CyrusOne]] with [[wiki/Dugway Proving Ground|Dugway Proving Ground]]. ## Relationships - **sponsor:** [[wiki/United States Army|United States Army]]. - **policy context:** [[wiki/Executive Order 14318|Executive Order 14318]]. - **projects:** [[wiki/Fort Bliss Hyperscale Data Center|Fort Bliss Hyperscale Data Center]] and Dugway project. - **stated strategic rationale:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence Compute|AI compute]] as national-security infrastructure. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Army — hyperscale data-center conditional agreements, March 26, 2026](https://www.army.mil/article/291360/army_reaches_conditional_agreement_with_private_industry_for_hyperscaled_data_centers)