Data center · Facility
AnnouncedAmazon Web Services data center in Salem Township, Pennsylvania
Announced Jul 2021, in Luzerne County. No permit on record yet.
No permit on record yet. First seen Sep 23, 2026.
Where
Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Exact site not public. Shown at township level.
- Reported capacity
- 960MW
- Planned, as Compute Atlas (Sep 12, 2026) reports it. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
- Work it brings
- Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
- The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
- Who bills here
- Amazon Web Services
- The operator, per Compute Atlas. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.
Nearest other build
Salem Township Data Center Development (Amazon Web Services) - Phase 2
1 miles away
Builds in Luzerne County
Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.
Builds in Pennsylvania
Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.
U.S. data center construction
August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.
What this means for you
Same customers, bigger invoices.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
Who your invoice goes to
- Amazon Web ServicesOperator
- General contractorNot named yet
- CarriersNot named yet
- UtilityNot named yet
Key facts
- Stage
- Under constructionCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Reported capacity
- 960 MWCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Site area
- 1,200 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Reported investment
- $650MKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Reported jobs
- 1,000Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Announced
- Jul 2021Compute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Construction start reported
- Jan 2023Compute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Location
- Salem Township, Luzerne County, PennsylvaniaCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Power source
- NuclearKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Cooling
- EvaporativeKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Facility type
- AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Incentives reported
- Pennsylvania Computer Data Center Equipment sales-and-use tax exemption (Amazon approved) (Pennsylvania); Pennsylvania targeted workforce-development investment tied to the Amazon data-center deal (statewide; covers both PA Amazon campuses) (Pennsylvania) $10.0MKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
What the public record lacks: the building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.
Who's involved
- Operator
- Amazon Web ServicesCompute Atlas · Sep 12, 2026
- Utility
- Talen EnergyKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- General contractor
- Not named in a public record yet
- Carriers
- Appear here as the records name them
How far along it is
- · Compute Atlas
Announced
- · Compute Atlas
Construction start
- · Kapwork's date
First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker
- Date not reported · Compute Atlas
Construction start reported
- Date not reported · Compute Atlas
Construction start reported
- Date not reported · Compute Atlas
Reported as announced
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.
More builds
Same operator
In Pennsylvania
- 1205 Commonwealth Dr. Data Center (former Pennhurst Asylum)Pennsylvania
- 2100 Renaissance Blvd. Data Center (MLP Ventures)Pennsylvania
- 216 Greenfield Road (Chirisa Technology Parks)Pennsylvania
- 2201, 2301, 2501, 2701, & 2901 Renaissance Blvd. Data Center (MLP Ventures)Pennsylvania
- 3200 Horizon Dr. Data Center (MLP Ventures)Pennsylvania
The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 108 published builds in Pennsylvania, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.
Questions this page answers
Is AWS Cumulus Data Center Campus, Salem Township under construction?
Who is building AWS Cumulus Data Center Campus, Salem Township?
Which carriers serve AWS Cumulus Data Center Campus, Salem Township?
How do contractors on AWS Cumulus Data Center Campus, Salem Township get paid sooner?
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Sources, updates and data
Compute Atlas · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30
Where this comes from
- Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)
Record aws-cumulus-salem-township-pa · As of Sep 12, 2026 - Data Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Talen Energy Investor Relations (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Susquehanna River Basin Commission / Three Mile Island Alert (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Technical.ly (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - The Center Square (via Black Chronicle) (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Measured AI (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Sep 12, 2026 - Times Leader (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Sep 12, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)
Merged view of the sources here · snapshot Nov 2, 2026 - U.S. Census Bureau, Construction Spending (Value of Construction Put in Place, C30)
National data center spending · August 2026 · released Oct 1, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker
Counts, nearest build and first-seen dates (Kapwork's dates), published Nov 3, 2026. Tracker snapshot Nov 2, 2026; sources fetched: Compute Atlas Sep 24, 2026; Server Country Sep 24, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO Sep 24, 2026; Texas Comptroller Sep 24, 2026; UVA DC-SENSE Sep 24, 2026; Public Evidence Project Sep 24, 2026.
What each source reports
- Compute Atlas: Under construction, 960 MW
Updates
- Date not reported: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
- Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
- Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
- Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker. Kapwork's date
- Jan 2023: Construction start. Compute Atlas
- Jul 2021: Announced. Compute Atlas
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.
What we don't know yet
- The building area, the general contractor's name and the completion date.
- The carriers that serve the campus.
- How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.
Spot an error? Tell us
Cite: Kapwork Grow, “AWS Cumulus Data Center Campus, Salem Township”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/aws-cumulus-data-center-campus-salem-township-pa-dc_8421c066c6f0, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.
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