Claim · 2024-10-16 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Amazon stated on 16 October 2024 that it had previously signed an agreement to co-locate a data center facility next to Talen Energy's nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, which would directly power its data centers with carbon-free energy.

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What it connects

Amazon → has a power agreement with → Talen Energy Corporation

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Claim and evidence

Amazonhas a power agreement with ↓Talen Energy Corporation

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2024-10-16 · announcement
Stage: contracted

Scope and limitsAmazon's description of an earlier agreement; it states no capacity, price or start date. FERC's rejection of the amended interconnection agreement in November 2024 (recorded separately) and the restructured 2025 PPA (recorded separately) change the arrangement.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Amazon signs agreements for innovative nuclear energy projects to address growing energy demands

Amazon · 2024-10-16

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Source excerpt

“previously signed an agreement to co-locate a data center facility next to the Talen Energy’s nuclear facility in Pennsylvania”

Location in source paragraph beginning “We also previously signed an agreement…”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Amazon
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 b8648dd6d040d7504a6e53b63d1554675c978687ed0f0a180ecda4bc382504f0). aboutamazon.com page as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2024-10-16 in page metadata. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 767a8243769f9ab921f678e2f036e597e62b8b0a59051a2c233ae108e0e5aab2). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Amazon, “Amazon signs agreements for innovative nuclear energy projects to address growing energy demands”, 2024-10-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 767a8243769f9ab921f678e2f036e597e62b8b0a59051a2c233ae108e0e5aab2; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A stated agreement on electricity supply, a power purchase, a plant restart or the development of generation, at the stage the parties state. It is not delivery of power, and an agreement to explore is not a contract.

Date. Date of Amazon's statement, from the page's datePublished metadata (2024-10-16; the page text shows no date); the agreement's own date is not given.

Record ID cpo-pw-amazon-talen-colocation