South CarolinaData Centers
See the Whole Picture.
Track data center projects and understand the power, water, cooling, public decisions, business impacts, and community questions connected to each one—with the sources attached.
Latest Data Center News
News articles provide timely reporting and research leads. SCDIA independently classifies and verifies factual claims through its evidence process.
Questions from the community help guide SCDIA’s research.
Share a question, local document, correction, survey response, or experience. Public input is reviewed separately from verified evidence and does not determine factual findings.
Community input is self-selected and is not a representative public-opinion poll. Responses help identify questions and research priorities but do not determine factual findings or verification status.
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One Project. Many Systems.
A data center is one building within a much larger infrastructure and public-decision system. Select a connected system to learn what it means.
A central data center node is connected to seven systems: electricity, water, cooling, fiber, government, business and workforce, and community and environment. Each system is selectable.
Data centers can require large, continuous electric loads. Important questions include who supplies the power, what grid upgrades may be required, when service is expected, and who pays for the upgrades.
Every connected system has its own records, sources, and verification classifications across the platform.
See what is changing around you.
Understand nearby projects, water and electricity demand, public decisions, and ways to participate.
Understanding Water
Water may be used for cooling, humidification, domestic service, construction, or other facility needs.
Average demand, peak demand, withdrawal, consumption, and discharge are different measurements. Each is tracked separately and never combined.
Not publicly disclosed
Verified, officially announced, developer-reported, SCDIA estimate, requested but not disclosed, unknown, and conflicting are kept distinct. Developer-reported or estimated values are never shown as verified.
- Water provider
- Not publicly disclosed
- Source type
- Not yet documented
- Water quality (potable / non-potable / reclaimed / mixed)
- Not yet documented
- Peak daily demand
- Not yet documented
- Average daily demand
- Not yet documented
- Wastewater provider
- Not publicly disclosed
- Upgrade requirements
- Not yet documented
- WUE
- Not yet documented
- Drought or curtailment terms
- Not yet documented
Understanding Electricity
Data centers can require large, continuous electric loads.
Important questions include who supplies the power, what grid upgrades may be required, when service is expected, and who pays for the upgrades.
Not publicly disclosed
Verified, officially announced, developer-reported, SCDIA estimate, requested but not disclosed, unknown, and conflicting are kept distinct. Developer-reported or estimated values are never shown as verified.
- Retail electric provider
- Not publicly disclosed
- Interconnection utility
- Not yet documented
- Qualifying disclosed total demand
- Not yet documented
- Interconnection status
- Not yet documented
- Substation upgrades
- Not yet documented
- Transmission upgrades
- Not yet documented
- Cost responsibility
- Not yet documented
- Backup generation
- Not yet documented
- Demand response
- Not yet documented
Understanding Cooling
“Liquid cooling” describes how heat may leave chips or servers.
It does not by itself establish whether the facility ultimately uses cooling towers, chillers, dry coolers, adiabatic systems, or evaporation. IT cooling method and facility heat-rejection method are tracked separately.
Cooling is determined per facility and is not a utility service.
Verified, officially announced, developer-reported, SCDIA estimate, requested but not disclosed, unknown, and conflicting are kept distinct. Developer-reported or estimated values are never shown as verified.
- IT cooling method
- Not yet documented
- Facility heat-rejection method
- Not yet documented
- Cooling-tower presence
- Not yet documented
- Closed-loop claim
- Not yet documented
- Economizer type
- Not yet documented
- Operating modes
- Not yet documented
- Design or actual WUE
- Not yet documented
What changed
These totals include only projects with qualifying verified or officially announced values backed by published sources. They are not estimates for every tracked project. Missing values are never shown as zero.
Across South Carolina
A statewide view of tracked projects, published sources, and counties in scope.
How SCDIA Knows
Every material fact is linked to a source and carries a verification classification. These distinctions are preserved everywhere they appear.
Verified
Confirmed against an official or primary source.
Officially announced
Stated by the responsible organization in a public filing or release.
Developer-reported
Reported by the project developer; not independently confirmed.
SCDIA estimate
A reasoned estimate based on comparable projects; clearly labeled as such.
Unknown
Not yet publicly documented. Never shown as zero.
Conflicting
Sources disagree; the conflict is surfaced, not hidden.
Corrected or superseded
A prior value was updated or replaced with evidence.