Amazon to spend $ 20 billion on data centers in Pennsylvania, including one next to a nuclear power plant | Mint

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), June 10 (AP) Amazon, said on Monday that it would spend 20 billion dollars on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one that built it with a nuclear power plant that drove the federal investigation into the wheels to include in the power station. Kevin Miller, vice president of Global Data Centers at Amazon’s subsidiary subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press the company would build another data center complex just north of Philadelphia. One data center is built along the Northeast Pennsylvania’s Susquhanna nuclear power plant, where he intends to gain his power. The other is in Fairless Hills on a logistics campus, the Keystone Trade Center, on what was once a US steel factory. Amazon said that data center will get its power through the electricity network. At a news conference in Berwick in the shadow of the power station, Governor Josh Shapiro called it the biggest investment in the private sector in the history of Pennsylvania. The announcement of Monday, he said, is ‘just the beginning’ because his administration with Amazon is working on additional data center projects in Pennsylvania. While critics believe data centers employ relatively few people and pack few long-term punches for job creations, their advocates say they need a large number of construction work to build, to spend enormous amounts from area sellers and generate strong tax revenue for local governments. Shapiro has designated the work that will keep the construction trading members building Amazon’s data centers, the technical positions that will wait for graduates of area colleges and the millions of dollars on property taxes that will flow to schools and local governments. “For too long, we watched how talents across Pennsylvania were hollowed out and left behind,” Shapiro said at the news conference. “No more. Now is our time to rebuild the communities and invest in them. This investment in Pennsylvania is starting to turn around. ‘ Pennsylvania may offer ten millions of dollars to incentives, usually a key element of data center transactions, as states compete for the major installations they hope will be an economic bonanza. Shapiro’s administration said it would spend $ 10 million to pay for training classes and facilities at schools, community colleges and trade union halls to meet the skills question for data centers. Amazon will also qualify for Pennsylvania’s existing release of turnover tax on the purchase of data center equipment, such as servers and routers, an exemption that offers most states and is considered to be a must for a state to compete. The announcements contribute to the billions of dollars in the cash of the data center in Big Tech flowing into the state. Since 2024, Amazon has committed to doing approximately $ 10 billion per piece to data center projects in Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, as it increases its infrastructure to compete with other technical giants to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence products. The rapid growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence has meanwhile fueled the demand for energy-hungry data centers that need power to manage servers, storage systems, network equipment and cooling systems. Last year, last year last year, last year, last year, Susquhanna nuclear power plant Talen Energy sold its data center and land to Amazon for $ 650 million in an agreement to eventually deliver $ 960 megawatts, probably at a premium. This is 40 percent of the production of one of the largest core power plants of the country, or enough to use more than half a million homes. Amazon is abandoning the data center effectively and building its own, larger facility on the country. The power-examined arrangement between Talen and Amazon-what is called a ‘behind the meter’ connection-however, was detained by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the first such case that came before the agency. For Big Tech, the plugin of data centers can take years from their developmental lines in a power station and is a much faster route to acquire power than to connect to the crowded electricity network. But this raised questions about whether the power to higher -paid customers would leave enough for others and whether it is fair to excuse great power users to pay fees to improve the network. It is not clear when Ferc, who has blocked the agreement on a procedural grounds, will certainly not. Already in Pennsylvania, Microsoft has an agreement with the owner of the Shernter Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to restart a reactor under a 20-year agreement to provide its data centers in four states with energy. Meanwhile, the owners of what was once Pennsylvania’s largest coal-powered power station say they will turn it into a dollar of 10 billion in natural gas-powered data center campus. (AP) jerking