Power producer Talen Energy on Wednesday said it struck a reworked deal to sell energy from its Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania to Amazon Web Services data centers.
The power contract between Amazon and Houston-based Talen expanded a previous agreement by shifting from a co-location arrangement that federal regulators rejected to a more standard power purchase agreement.
In a joint statement, Talen and Amazon said the Susquehanna nuclear plant will help power AI and cloud computing operations at an adjacent Amazon data center and possibly others in the state. The power supplies will increase over time, reaching up to 1,920 megawatts by 2032.
The companies said they will also explore building small modular reactors (SMRs) in Pennsylvania and pursue expanding the nuclear plant’s energy output through uprates, with the intent to add net-new energy to the broader PJM Interconnection grid.
