Power & grid
FERC rejects expanded power arrangement for Amazon’s Susquehanna data center
Confirmed
- Date
- 2024-11-01
- Location
- Luzerne County, PA
- Category
- Power & grid
On November 1, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a proposed amendment to the interconnection agreement involving Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear plant and an Amazon Web Services data center in Pennsylvania. The proposed amendment would have increased the permitted co-located load from 300 to 480 megawatts. Reuters reported the decision on November 2. In its statement responding to the order, Talen said the existing agreement allowed 300 megawatts of co-located load for the initial development of the AWS campus. The dispute concerned power supply and grid arrangements, not a blanket cancellation of the data center. The date shown is the regulatory decision date. This record describes that order; it does not establish the status of later agreements or proceedings. The source concerns AWS infrastructure and its electricity supply, not a finding that all workloads at the campus are AI-related.