Data centers that support GenAI training require a voracious amount of available electric power, but that won't be an issue with 1,200-acre data hub acquired this month in Pennsylvania by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Cumulus data center campus in Berwick, PA is directly connected to 2.5-gigawatt Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, one of the nation's largest nuclear power plants.
Talen Energy, which owns the plant, has agreed to sell its Cumulus Data subsidiary to AWS for $650M, according to a report in Data Center Dynamics.
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