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AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus

AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Amazon Web Services in Pennsylvania, Salem Township. 0.96 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Amazon Web Services · Private land · PJM · Salem Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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Under construction
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Energized
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Announced-to-energized gap: 0.96 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

46th-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses58th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 778,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2032. 75 months away. Claimed by Talen Energy / AWS (source).

AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced0.96 GW2024-06-01reportedjournalist report

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

0.96 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Amazon Web Services

Developer

United States

Location

PJM

Grid

private land

Land

0.96 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Location / acquisition (reported)
AWS acquired Talen Energy's Cumulus data center campus adjacent to the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Salem Township, Pennsylvania (Luzerne County). Trade press reports ~960 MW campus scope and a ~$650M sale; treat dollar figure as press-reported (Data Center Dynamics; Data Center Frontier)
Nuclear PPA (announced)
June 2025 expanded PPA: Talen to supply Amazon up to 1,920 MW of carbon-free power from Susquehanna through 2042 (with extension options), ramping to full volume no later than 2032, for AWS data centers at the adjacent campus and potentially other Pennsylvania sites (World Nuclear News summarizing Talen, Jun 12 2025)
Delivery structure (announced)
After FERC rejected a behind-the-meter interconnection increase, the co-located load arrangement is transitioning to a front-of-the-meter retail model: Susquehanna power to PJM, Talen as retail generation supplier to Amazon, PPL Electric Utilities for transmission/delivery. Transmission reconfigurations expected Spring 2026 with a Susquehanna refueling outage (World Nuclear News)
SMR / uprate exploration (announced)
Talen and Amazon say they will explore building SMRs within Talen's Pennsylvania footprint and pursuing Susquehanna uprates to add net-new energy to PJM (World Nuclear News)
Grid region
PJM Interconnection region; Susquehanna is a two-unit boiling water reactor plant in Salem Township (World Nuclear News)

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The story of AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus
Announced capex
$650M
Derived
Cost per MW
$677K/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterPennsylvania(96)

The deal

operator
Amazon Web Services · Acquired campus and develops data center load
utility
Talen Energy · Owner of Susquehanna nuclear plant and power supplier
offtaker
Amazon Web Services · 17-year nuclear power purchase agreement

Power

Power source
nuclear ppa
Grid operator
PJM
Interconnection

Susquehanna nuclear station power supply, 1.92 GW nuclear, Energized. 17-year PPA for up to 1.92 GW from the operating 2.5 GW two-unit plant, ramping to full by ~2032

The PJM grid demand right now: 83.3 GW (EIA-930, 2026-10-04 17:00). AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus's announced 0.96 GW would be 1.2% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Luzerne County, week of 2026-09-08 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2024-11-01

    Anthropic Project Rainier training cluster — Trainium 2 at scale (960 MW envelope)

    reported

    Amazon

Why here

AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus sits on private land in Pennsylvania, Salem Township. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on nuclear ppa power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

AWS acquisition of Cumulus data center campus
$650M. $350M at close plus $300M in escrow tied to 2024 development milestones journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    offtaker: Amazon Web Services
  3. Oct 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

7cb8993b-ed76-464a-8094-82a4395840e3 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus?
AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Salem Township. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus use?
AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus has 0.96 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus?
Amazon Web Services is recorded as a party to AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry.
Is AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). AWS Susquehanna (Cumulus) Nuclear-Coupled Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/aws-susquehanna-cumulus-salem-township-pennsylvania

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