The Army wants to build a better data center. Can they do it?

The Army got more than 200 responses to a March open-ended call for private-industry ideas on how the service could upgrade its infrastructure with new contracting models and public-private partnerships. Among the 120 that were deemed viable were proposals to build data centers on four Army installations—and officials are now studying the idea.Aware of the immense controversy surrounding data centers, officials are trying to get ahead of community concerns by requiring the centers to gener