Amazon Innovation Campus, Falls Township

Under construction in Falls Township, Bucks County

Current stage

Under construction and more than half complete, with the first building expected partly operational in Q4 2026.

Decision body

Falls Township

Top issues

Residents and officials have focused on the sheer footprint of the buildings, what remains in the ground from the site's industrial past, water use, continuous mechanical noise, and emissions from backup generation.

Part of $20B AWS PA commitment (Falls + Salem). Building 6 modified from warehouse to DC. 10 buildings, ~2M sq ft converted from 3M sq ft warehouses. KOZ designation 2021-2035. PECO grid; PECO–Amazon transmission service agreement filed at FERC Sept 23 2025; PJM IMM Joseph Bowring filed protest. Power amount under NDA. NRDC estimated $9.1B PECO costs by 2033. Shapiro estimate: 1,250 permanent jobs across both AWS PA campuses. Amazon's Falls Township campus sits inside the Keystone Trade Center, the roughly 1,800-acre NorthPoint Development redevelopment of the former U.S. Steel Fairless Works. A plan for four distribution warehouses was reworked into a digital infrastructure campus of 10 buildings from about 112,000 to 217,000 sq ft, totaling more than two million square feet on about 250 acres. Supervisors approved it in March 2025 after sparsely attended meetings; the project was first identified as a data center in August 2024 when NorthPoint obtained a noise variance from the zoning hearing board, and Amazon's involvement was confirmed in June 2025 as part of its stated $20 billion Pennsylvania commitment alongside Salem Township. The first 1 million sq ft building was expected to go partly operational in the fourth quarter of 2026. Opposition grew through 2026, from a 900-signature petition in May to thousands of signatures and a four-hour town hall at Pennsbury High School East in July. Township manager John Shepherd told residents Pennsylvania law preempts a development moratorium and supervisors cannot deny a project for being unpopular, and supervisor Dence said plainly that it cannot be stopped. Amazon has distributed $150,000 through a Bucks County Community Fund to 22 groups.

• 2025-06-09AWS announces $20B PA commitment (Falls + Salem Twp) Amazon Web Services
• 2025-09-23PECO-Amazon Falls Twp transmission service agreement filed at FERC FERC
• 2025-11-01PJM Independent Market Monitor protest re Falls Twp PECO-Amazon FERC

• 2025-09-23
  FERC docket FERC · (filed Sept 23 2025)

  Transmission service agreement for AWS Falls Twp facility.

  PECO, AWS, Bowring (IMM) · IMM protest filed Nov 1 2025; pending

• 2026-07-15 LevittownNow.comTensions Flare At Falls Twp. Town Hall Over Amazon Data CenterFour-hour town hall; first 1M sq ft building operational Q4 2026
• 2026-07-11 Lower Bucks TimesAmazon Is Handing $150,000 to Bucks County Groups as Its Falls Township Data Center Splits the NeighborhoodCommunity fund grants amid opposition; project more than half built
• 2026-05-27 Bucks County BeaconFalls Township Residents Say They Were Left in the Dark Throughout Data Center Planning ProcessAug 2024 ZHB noise variance was the first public sign of a data center
• 2026-05-19 LevittownNow.comFalls Twp. Residents Push Back Against Under Construction Data CenterOfficials say no moratorium authority exists under state law; 900-signature petition
• 2026-02-04 LevittownNow.comWith Data Center Being Built In Falls Twp., Governor Calls For Standards Amid GrowthShapiro's Responsible Infrastructure Development standards announced in budget address