To: U.S. Congress
Stop the Pentagon’s Warfare-Powering AI Data Centers
I am deeply concerned about the Pentagon’s plans to build data centers on military land to fuel AI capabilities in warfare. Congress must block the Pentagon from building new taxpayer-subsidized AI data centers.
Why is this important?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quickly working to create an “AI-first” fighting force. To supercharge an already dangerous AI-powered war machine, the Army and Air Force are planning to build data centers spanning thousands of acres of military property in Texas, North Carolina, Utah, California, Arizona, and Georgia — and more could follow.
It’s all to advance the usage of AI in warfare; autonomous weapons systems, algorithms making life-or-death decisions, robots with the power to launch nuclear weapons.
We’re sounding the alarm: Unchecked AI has no place in weapons and war, and parasitic data centers have no place in our communities.
But Wall Street firms and private equity companies like the Carlyle Group and BlackRock are turning to the Pentagon to cash in on the AI boom, which is currently negotiating “exclusive” 50-year term leases of its property for the data centers.
To get lawmakers to pay attention and prevent more data centers from destroying land, water, and air to power AI warfare tomorrow, we need as many people as possible speaking out today.