AWS Acquires Nuclear Powered Data Center Campus in PA

Amazon Web Services (AWS) hasn’t spoken up yet, but in an investor presentation Talen Energy Corporation, the primary operator of the  Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a nuclear power generation plant in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, AWS was identified as the purchaser of the Cumulus data center campus, collocated with the nuclear power plant.

The former Cumulus Data campus will be sold for $650 million.

According to the presentation, AWS is to develop up to 960 MW for the data center campus, with minimum contracted power that ramps up in 120 MW increments over several years.