Amazon plans Texas data centre campus on Vistra land beside Comanche Peak nuclear plant

Amazon said on 5 November 2026 that it is planning a data centre campus in an unincorporated part of Somervell County, Texas, near Glen Rose, on Vistra Corp. land beside the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant.

Amazon says the project will be built in stages and that work to prepare the site has begun. It expects 550 or more full-time jobs from the investment and says construction will bring thousands more.

Amazon says its facilities in the region cool with outside air for about 84% of the year and switch to water-based cooling only in the hottest hours, some 16% of the time. It says that water comes only from the Comanche Creek reservoir, an industrial cooling reservoir for the nuclear plant, using surface water rights that Vistra already holds and leases to Amazon. Amazon says it will not seek new water rights and projects average yearly use below 2% of Vistra's rights for the site.

Amazon says power will come from Comanche Peak over new, dedicated lines into a substation on the campus, with Amazon buying its electricity straight from the plant as an off-taker. It also says it will comply with Texas Senate Bill 6, which it says requires it to cut its load when directed in grid emergencies.