Amazon AWS PHL

Amazon AWS PHL is a 272,146 square foot data center in Berwick, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, currently mapped by DataCentersExposed. The site is operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc., whose ultimate corporate parent is Amazon.com, Inc. It draws power from PPL Electric Utilities Corp and sits within the PJM grid, and existing records describe it as an Amazon Web Services data center.

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  Spectrum News· Jun 10, 2026
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  WNEP· Jun 9, 2026
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  Spotlight PA· May 18, 2026
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These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

• Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
• Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
  Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

No reported violations as of last sync.

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's RTO pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Scranton and Wilkes-Barre), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

The nearest public school, Nescopeck El Sch in Nescopeck, is 4.4 mi from this site (156 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.