AWS Salem Township campus (Susquehanna nuclear plant)
Salem Township (Luzerne County), Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Amazon (AWS)
- Capacity
- 960 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Luzerne County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
AWS Salem Township campus (Susquehanna nuclear plant) is on record as proposed in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A record puts its capacity at 960 MW. 30 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 7 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 1.5 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 3.0 mi Proposed 1.5 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 1.5 mi approximate
4-3 Salem Township Data Center
Proposed · Luzerne County, PA
- 1.7 mi approximate
Proposed · Luzerne County, PA
- 2.1 mi approximate
Proposed · Columbia County, PA
- 2.2 mi approximate
Nescopeck / Valley View Wood Data Center
Proposed · Luzerne County, PA
- 2.8 mi approximate
Proposed · Luzerne County, PA
- 3.0 mi approximate
Operating · Luzerne County, PA
What is on record
Owner
Likely Amazon (AWS)
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
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cited document names the operator
amazon
Filed by: Amazon (AWS)
- Capacity
- 960 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Amazon (AWS)
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for AWS Salem Township campus (Susquehanna nuclear plant): https://www.inquirer.com/business/amazon-data-centers-pennsylvania-20250609.html US-PA | Context | url=https://www.inquirer.com/business/amazon-data-centers-pennsylvania-20250609.html | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=aws-salem-township-pa | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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