Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)
Salem Township near Berwick, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station nuclear plant
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
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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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | AWS Susquehanna Nuclear Data Center Campus | Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4). |
| Capital | capital commitment | +30 | Amazon Web Services (investor) | investor role committed $20,000,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | AWS Susquehanna Nuclear Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | AWS Susquehanna Nuclear Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | AWS Susquehanna Nuclear Data Center Campus | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-03-04). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-06-11). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | AWS Susquehanna Nuclear Data Center Campus | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-06-11 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
Announcement · Actual:
Energization · Expected:
Energization · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| Amazon Web Services | 100% | $20.0B | |
| Amazon Web Services | — | — | |
| Amazon Web Services | — | — | |
| Talen Energy | — | — | |
| Talen Energy | — | — |
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.
Talen Energy IR · Jun 11, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw
https://ir.talenenergy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/talen-energy-expands-nuclear-energy-relationship-amazon
POWER Magazine · Jun 1, 2025 · backs: expected date
https://www.powermag.com/talen-amazon-launch-18b-nuclear-ppa-a-grid-connected-ipp-model-for-the-data-center-era/
DCD · Mar 4, 2024 · backs: actual date
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-acquires-talens-nuclear-data-center-campus-in-pennsylvania/
Utility Dive · backs: status
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/talen-amazon-aws-susquehanna-nuclear-data-centert/750440/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Talen Energy IR · relevance 0.70
· POWER Magazine · relevance 0.90
· DCD · relevance 0.95
Utility Dive · relevance 0.90