AWS Salem Township Innovation Campus (Susquehanna)
Under constructionPennsylvania · Luzerne · last verified Sep 17, 2026
- Developer
- Amazon Web Services
- Tenant
- AWS
- Location
- Salem Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
- Announced capacity
- 1.9 GW
- Capacity confidence
- Reported, partly confirmed
- Phase one
- 960 MW
- Site
- 1,200 acres
- Utility
- Talen Energy PPA (PJM)
- Power source
- nuclear (Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, 1,920 MW PPA)
- Reported investment
- —
- Announced
- Jun 9, 2025
- Target online
- Construction started October 2025; 15 buildings over next decade
Notes
Talen sold a 960 MW campus to AWS for $650M in March 2024; PPA scales to 1,920 MW through 2042; the $20B is Amazon's statewide Pennsylvania commitment so investment left null; FERC blocked the original behind-the-meter interconnection.
Location
Approximate coordinates: 41.0900, -76.1500 · open in OpenStreetMap
Sources
- undated Salem Township Innovation Campus · Amazon
- undated Amazon to invest $20bn in data centers in Pennsylvania · Data Center Dynamics
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