Amazon plans data center campus near Glen Rose on Vistra land beside Comanche Peak

Amazon is planning a data center campus near Glen Rose, Texas, on land owned by Vistra. The site sits right next to the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant.

The effort, called Project Spectrum, is being led by Amazon Data Services. It covers approximately 435 acres in Somervell County and comes with a projected investment of about $5 billion.

What Amazon is building, and what it is plugging into

The plan calls for up to 18 buildings. They are designed to handle Amazon’s cloud services and artificial intelligence workloads.

Project Spectrum is tied to a 20-year power purchase agreement for up to 1,200 MW from Comanche Peak.

The timeline runs in stages. Initial energization is targeted for 2027, with delivery aimed at the fourth quarter of 2027 and full ramp-up expected by 2032.

The PPA was first disclosed in September 2025, and Amazon was confirmed as the buyer in February 2026.

Dedicated lines, net metering and backup plans

Power from Comanche Peak is set to flow to the campus through dedicated transmission lines.

The arrangement also includes a net metering agreement. Net metering is an accounting setup that tracks power flowing in and out, so the customer is billed on the balance rather than every individual kilowatt.

Amazon also plans to install backup generation at the site.

Jobs, taxes and water

Project Spectrum is projected to create at least 550 full-time jobs, with wages above the county average.

Construction is expected to bring thousands more jobs during the build-out phase.

The tax abatement package includes $2.5 million at groundbreaking. It also includes $300,000 annually per building once each is completed.

If all 18 buildings get built, that per-building figure adds up to $5.4 million a year.

Amazon plans to draw from an industrial reservoir rather than tapping drinking supplies. The company is also putting $3.75 million into efficiency measures expected to return more than 330 million gallons per year to the basin.

Local approvals for the project came through in February 2026.

Why Texas, and why nuclear

Nuclear plants offer baseload power — steady output around the clock, regardless of weather or time of day.

By pulling power through dedicated lines from a plant next door, Amazon sidesteps some of the complexity of Texas’s broader grid.

What this means

For Vistra, the deal turns land and nuclear output into a long-term revenue stream with one of the world’s biggest companies. A 20-year contract for up to 1,200 MW is the kind of visibility power producers rarely get.

For Amazon, the project secures a large block of reliable power for cloud and AI expansion, with energization in 2027 and full ramp-up by 2032.

Dedicated transmission arrangements and net metering deals for massive loads draw scrutiny from regulators and grid operators, especially as Texas reviews how data centers connect to its system.

The plan covers up to 18 buildings over several years, and the jobs, tax payments and water commitments all depend on that build-out happening as described.