Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of the online retail giant founded by Jeff Bezos, has acquired US power producer Talen Energy’s Cumulus data centre campus at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania.

Talen Energy announced earlier this week it had sold the campus to a “major cloud service provider”. That cloud provider was listed in a Talen investor presentation as Amazon.

Talen said AWS, which provides provides cloud computing platforms, aims to develop a 960 MW data centre campus on the site, which gets its power from the Susquehanna nuclear station.