The US military wants to turn its bases into AI factories. The Pentagon is pursuing plans to build commercial hyperscale AI data centers on military installations, a move that would marry the government’s vast, secure real estate holdings with the private sector’s insatiable appetite for compute power. AdvertisementSpaceX was reported in mid-July 2026 to be in discussions with the Pentagon about providing computing capacity for AI initiatives. How would intellectual property be handled when commercial workloads run alongside, or on the same infrastructure as, defense applications? No cryptocurrency tokens or blockchain protocols have been directly linked to the Pentagon’s plans.