Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center
Photo: Talen Energy
One of the US’s largest nuclear power plants will directly power cloud service provider Amazon Web Services’ new data center.
Power provider Talen Energy sold its data center campus, Cumulus Data Assets, to Amazon Web Services for $650 million. Amazon will develop an up to 960-megawatt (MW) data center at the Salem Township site in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
The 1,200-acre campus is directly powered by an adjacent 2.5 gigawatt (GW) nuclear power station also owned by Talen...
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