# Fort Bliss **Entity class:** United States Army installation ## Definition **Fort Bliss** is a large Army installation centered in El Paso, Texas, and extending into New Mexico. Army material describes approximately 1.12 million acres, extensive maneuver areas, restricted airspace, and joint-service training capacity. ## Intelligence, Modernization, and Compute Fort Bliss hosts the [[wiki/204th Military Intelligence Battalion|204th Military Intelligence Battalion]], [[wiki/Joint Modernization Command|Joint Modernization Command]], [[wiki/32d Army Air and Missile Defense Command|32d AAMDC]], [[wiki/1st Armored Division|1st Armored Division]], [[wiki/Biggs Army Airfield|Biggs Army Airfield]], and elements supporting [[wiki/Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel|JIATF-CC]]. The Army has also conditionally selected [[wiki/Carlyle Group|Carlyle]] to negotiate a separate [[wiki/Fort Bliss Hyperscale Data Center|commercial hyperscale data center]] on 1,384 acres under an [[wiki/Enhanced Use Lease|Enhanced Use Lease]]. ## Relationships - **operated by:** [[wiki/United States Army|United States Army]]. - **regional system:** [[wiki/El Paso AI-Compute and Military Modernization Corridor|El Paso–Fort Bliss corridor]]. - **modernization:** [[wiki/Project Convergence|Project Convergence]]. - **former headquarters:** [[wiki/Joint Task Force North|JTF-North]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Fort Bliss — 2024 Fact Book](https://home.army.mil/bliss/application/files/9417/1458/4788/Homepage_2024_Fort_Bliss_TX_Fact_Book19Mar24.pdf) - [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)