Amazon (AWS) Falls Township campus (Keystone Trade Center)
Amazon is building a data center campus at the Keystone Trade Center in Falls Township, on the old U.S. Steel site. Plans show 10 buildings totaling more than 2 million square feet. It is part of Amazon's $20 billion Pennsylvania investment (the 1,250 jobs and $20 billion are statewide figures).
Where things stand: Reported under construction since 2025 on the former U.S. Steel site.
🕒 Latest update (July 14, 2026): At a town hall, the head of the Morrisville Municipal Authority said the campus could use up to 4.4 million gallons a day on the hottest days, but about 135,000 gallons a day on average over a year. About 40% would come back through the industrial wastewater plant before going to the Delaware River.
Falls Township Board of Supervisors meeting. We don't know yet if Amazon (AWS) Falls Township campus (Keystone Trade Center) is on the agenda. Call the office to check before you go.
What we know
- 📍 WhereKeystone Trade Center, 700 South Port Road (former U.S. Steel Fairless Works), Falls Township, Bucks County
- 🏢 CompanyAmazon Web Services
- 🏛️ Owned byAmazon
- 👤 Built forAmazon
- 💧 WaterUntreated Delaware River water from the old U.S. Steel 'service water' system at Keystone Trade Center, run by the Morrisville Municipal Authority (not drinking water) · 135,000 gallons a day
- ❄️ CoolingOutside-air cooling most of the year; direct evaporative (water) cooling only on the hottest days, about 2-6% of the year; no cooling towers
- 💵 Cost$20 billion
- 👷 Jobs promised1,250
- 🤐 Secret deal (NDA)Yes. LevittownNow reported construction workers and vendors were told not to make Amazon's connection public.
❓ Still unanswered
Nobody has answered these in public yet. Can you help find out?
- How many megawatts will it use, and where will the power come from? 🙋 I'll find out
- How many diesel generators? 🙋 I'll find out
- Did township officials sign an NDA? 🙋 I'll find out
- Does Amazon's river water use need its own Delaware River Basin Commission docket, or is it covered by the old U.S. Steel water allocation? 🙋 I'll find out
🔎 What we checked
- Oct 6, 2026: We checked the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC) list of pending applications (August 2026): there is no application for this data center. DRBC said in November 2025 it had not received any data center applications. A data center needs its own DRBC approval only if it takes more than 100,000 gallons a day from its own wells or streams, or discharges more than 50,000 gallons a day (lower limits in some protected areas). Buying water from a water company does not need a separate DRBC approval.
What happened so far
- June 9, 2025Gov. Shapiro and Amazon announced $20 billion for campuses in Falls Township and Salem Township; site plan reworked as a 10-building 'digital infrastructure campus' of over 2 million sq ft.
- Sept 10, 2025The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) renewed the approval for the Keystone Trade Center sewage and industrial wastewater plants run by the Morrisville Municipal Authority (up to 3.75 million gallons a day of treated industrial wastewater to the Delaware River). Water returned from the data center is to go through this plant.
- April 30, 2026The Morrisville Municipal Authority applied to the Delaware River Basin Commission to build a new wastewater plant at Keystone Trade Center, averaging up to 8 million gallons a day, with a new pipe into the Delaware River. The application does not name the data center. It is still pending.
- July 14, 2026At a town hall, the head of the Morrisville Municipal Authority said the campus could use up to 4.4 million gallons a day on the hottest days, but about 135,000 gallons a day on average over a year. About 40% would come back through the industrial wastewater plant before going to the Delaware River.
Local votes and rules
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
After months of protests over the Amazon data center, Falls supervisors declared parts of their zoning code invalid. This gives the township about six months to rewrite where and how data centers can be built, and protects it from developer challenges while it does. It does not stop the Amazon project already being built.
✅ Approved
Falls Township supervisors approved changed land development plans at the Keystone Trade Center, a former U.S. Steel site on the Delaware River. The changes let warehouse buildings there be used for an Amazon Web Services data center, which is now under construction.
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Where this comes from
- Amazon Building Falls Twp. Tech Center As Part Of $20 Billion Project · LevittownNow.com · June 9, 2025
- Amazon Web Services' $20B Pa. investment will include data centers in Luzerne, Bucks counties · WVIA · June 9, 2025
- Falls Township calendar · Falls Township · Oct 6, 2026
- Tensions flare at Falls Twp. town hall over Amazon data center · LevittownNow · July 15, 2026
- Amazon presentation, Falls Township data center (posted by DEP) · Amazon Web Services / PA DEP · 2026
- DRBC Docket D-1978-068-6, Morrisville KTC Sewage and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants · Delaware River Basin Commission · Sept 10, 2025
- DRBC Project Review: Pending Project Status (August 2026) · Delaware River Basin Commission · Aug 2026
- Frequently Asked Questions: Data Centers · Delaware River Basin Commission · Nov 24, 2025
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