Talen Energy Corporation (“Talen Energy”), together with its Cumulus Data subsidiary, announced that they have joined the Infrastructure Masons (“iMasons”) Climate Accord (“ICA”). ICA is a historic cooperative of over 70 companies committed to a cleaner energy future that reduces carbon emissions across the digital infrastructure sector. Signatories to the ICA include hyperscale companies Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Meta, Microsoft, and leading global data center platforms and service providers. Talen Energy and Cumulus Data join other industry leaders who have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by uniting together to adopt a common standard enabled by solutions such as the Cumulus carbon-free data center platform.
“We established iMasons to unite the builders of the digital age,” said Dean Nelson, Chairman and Founder of Infrastructure Masons. “The ICA represents an unprecedented collaboration between leading digital infrastructure companies to accelerate our journey to carbon neutrality. Today, we are combining forces to compound the efforts of these firms to make meaningful and sustained progress toward that goal.”
Cumulus Data is constructing its flagship Cumulus data center campus, which will provide carbon-free, low-cost, reliable energy generated by Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear facility to directly power the campus, without intermediation by legacy electric utilities. The first Cumulus data center, a 48 Megawatt powered shell designed for hyperscale cloud applications, is currently under construction and will be completed in the second half of 2022. Two additional 48 Megawatt powered shells are in advanced development to deliver a total of 150 Megawatts of capacity in Phase I over the near term and an aggregate capacity for the Cumulus Data hyperscale campus of 475 Megawatts.