Data center project · Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Amazon Web Services Falls Township campus (Keystone Trade Center)
Under construction · Amazon's campus of more than 3 million square feet on the former Fairless steel works was approved in March 2025 and is under construction.
- Status
- Under construction · as of July 27, 2026
- Location
- Keystone Trade Center, former U.S. Steel Fairless Works, Falls Township · Bucks County
- Power
- Not reported
No power figure published in the sources reviewed. - Floor area
- 3,000,000 sq ft
- Developer and team
- Amazon Web Services; NorthPoint Development
- End user
- Amazon Web Services
- Water
- About 19,000 gallons a day on average; up to 4.4 million gallons a day at peak cooling from a former U.S. Steel river intake (reported)
- Evidence
- Primary public records
- Size class
- Under 50 MW (outside main scope; kept for completeness)
Updates, newest first
- Oct. 20, 2026 The state Department of Environmental Protection's data center permit tracker lists 7 environmental permit or authorization entries for the project: 6 issued, 1 pending. (Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 20, 2026; Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 20, 2026)
- July 27, 2026 Falls Township supervisors declared part of the zoning code invalid to start a 180-day rewrite of data center rules; the Amazon project keeps its approvals and construction continues. (Lower Bucks Times, July 29, 2026; LevittownNow, July 28, 2026)
- June 9, 2025 Amazon named Falls Township as one of its first two sites in its $20 billion Pennsylvania announcement. (WVIA News, June 9, 2025)
- May 5, 2025 Earliest environmental permit application listed for the project on DEP's data center permit tracker submitted. (Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 20, 2026; Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Oct. 20, 2026)
- March 2025 Falls Township approved the Amazon data center on the Keystone Trade Center brownfield. (LevittownNow, July 28, 2026; Lower Bucks Times, July 29, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
- Reported air permit plans include 280 natural gas generators and three diesel units, kept under major-source limits.
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