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FERC rejects bigger Amazon data-centre load at Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear plant

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Source: Troutman Pepper Energy ReportAlso reported by World Nuclear News

FERC voted 2-1 on 1 November 2024 (docket ER24-2172) to reject PJM’s amended interconnection agreement that would have raised the data-centre load co-located at Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear plant from 300MW to 480MW. Talen had sold its 960MW Cumulus data-centre campus to Amazon Web Services in March; Exelon and AEP had protested the filing.

Why it matters

Data-centre developers seeking power directly from existing plants learned that grid regulators would scrutinise co-location deals that bypass the shared grid.

When
1 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0137
Who
FERC, PJM, Talen Energy, Amazon Web Services; Mark Christie, Willie Phillips

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Troutman Pepper Energy Report and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Troutman Pepper Energy Report

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextFERC orders six US grid operators to fix or defend rules for connecting data centres

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Compare the years before 2024 with the years since in these series.

  • Epoch AI: frontier AI data centresEpoch AISite-level timelines of IT power, compute (H100-equivalents) and capital cost for large AI data centres.live · download · CSV
  • IEA Energy and AI dataInternational Energy AgencyWorld and regional data-centre capacity, power usage effectiveness, load factor and electricity use.download · XLSX
  • Epoch AI: GPU clusters (archived)Epoch AIMore than 500 GPU clusters and AI supercomputers with country, owner, performance, power and cost.Years: 2019-2025 · one-off · download · CSV · Covers before and after

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Cite this story

WTA-N-2024-0137: “FERC rejects bigger Amazon data-centre load at Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear plant.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-ferc-rejects-talen-amazon-susquehanna-isa-2024-11/ (source: Troutman Pepper Energy Report).

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