Catenaa, Monday, June 09, 2025- Amazon will invest $20 billion in two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, the company said on Monday, with the rapid growth in cloud computing and AI.
The investment will create 1,250 high-skilled jobs and support thousands more in the Amazon Web Services data center supply chain, as it will be the largest capital investment in Pennsylvania’s history.
One data center is being built next to northeastern Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant. The other will be in Fairless Hills at a logistics campus, the Keystone Trade Center, on what was once a US Steel mill.
The announcements add to the billions of dollars in Big Tech’s data center cash already flowing into the state.
Since 2024 started, Amazon has committed to about $10 billion apiece to data center projects in Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina as it ramps up its investment in infrastructure to compete with other tech giants to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence products.
The rapid growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence has fueled demand for data centers that need power to run servers, storage systems, networking equipment and cooling systems.
The majority owner of the Susquehanna nuclear power plant, Talen Energy, announced last year that it had sold its data center to Amazon for $650 million in a deal to eventually provide 960 megawatts. That’s 40% of the output of one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants, or enough to power more than a million homes.
Amazon stock surged by almost 1% on Monday with the news of the investment, the stock has jumped by over 11% since May 09.
