The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center

In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into. Firefighters reportedly found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants; the safety documents they’re legally entitled to see reportedly burned up in the blaze. Steve Matisz, chief of the Barker Fire Department, said his crew went into the building “kind of blind,” facin