Jurisdiction: US — Pennsylvania (PJM)
Salem Township, Luzerne County (adjacent to Berwick), next to Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear plant. Former Cumulus Data campus acquired by AWS in March 2024; ~1,600 acres rezoned to a Special Data Center Overlay District; 15-building campus planned.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Amazon / AWS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Susquehanna) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Amazon / AWS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Susquehanna) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Amazon / AWS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Susquehanna) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Amazon / AWS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Susquehanna) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Groundbreaking | Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2021-01-01). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Amazon / AWS Salem Township Data Center Campus (Susquehanna) | Newest schedule evidence is 2021-01-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Groundbreaking · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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| Amazon Web Services | — | — | |
| Amazon | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Data Center Dynamics · backs: actual date, status
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-granted-1600-acre-rezoning-request-plans-15-building-campus-at-pennsylvania-nuclear-site/
Data Center Frontier · backs: capacity mw
https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/hyperscale/article/33038288/aws-eyes-960-mw-for-newly-acquired-nuclear-power-data-center-in-pennsylvania
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
Data Center Dynamics
Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.90