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Each week one capital project of a scale that makes fire protection an engineering problem rather than a line item — what happened, and what it changes for the people who design and own such facilities.

Megaproject of the week12.09.2026

A 2 GW campus with its own power station: where the fire risk moves

Aligned broke ground on a 2 GW data centre campus in Pennsylvania that runs on its own on-site generation instead of the grid. That single decision pulls a power plant inside the fence — and with it a set of fire scenarios most data centre fire strategies were never written for.

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