May 13, 2026
Closed-Loop Cooling Wins Red Oak While Somervell Calls for a Statewide PauseThe Army's Fort Bliss deal hands Carlyle a 3 GW campus under a 50-year Enhanced Use Lease, with the Army taking compute capacity instead of cash rent.
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Fort Bliss, located in El Paso, Texas, is a major U.S. Army installation that has historically consumed significant electrical power from regional grids managed by El Paso Electric Company.
May 13, 2026
Closed-Loop Cooling Wins Red Oak While Somervell Calls for a Statewide PauseThe Army's Fort Bliss deal hands Carlyle a 3 GW campus under a 50-year Enhanced Use Lease, with the Army taking compute capacity instead of cash rent.
May 8, 2026
IREN Stacks Power, GPUs, and Cloud Ops Before the Queue FillsAt Fort Bliss, Carlyle's proposed 3 GW campus hasn't yet decided between El Paso Electric capacity and behind-the-meter generation.
May 1, 2026
Fort Bliss Becomes the Borderland's Third Gigawatt Build in 18 MonthsThe U.S. Army and Carlyle Group are advancing a 3 GW data center complex at Fort Bliss, with 100 MW targeted for next year and full build-out by 2029.
April 1, 2026
Utilities Waited. SoftBank, Google, and the Army Didn't.The Army tapped Carlyle to build self-contained power and closed-loop water systems at Fort Bliss.
March 28, 2026
Texas Built the Datacenter Boom. Now It's Auditing the Deal.The U.S. Army conditionally selected Carlyle for a hyperscaled data center at Fort Bliss, Texas (1,384 acres) and CyrusOne for Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, under the Enhanced Use Lease program, with no upfront taxpayer cost and initial operating capability targeted for FY2027 at Fort Bliss.
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