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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson).
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Research Center Drive · Ridgeville · Dorchester County · South Carolina · 29472
- Official metro area
- Charleston-North Charleston, SC
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000743
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Power source
- Solar
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 231 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- September 2024
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Property tax rate reduced to 4% (owner-occupied residential rate) for up to 53 years · Dorchester County, SC · 2024 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Google signed 600 MW solar PPA with EnergyRe covering South Carolina operations
Water. Uses recycled water and closed-loop cooling systems per Google's sustainability commitments
Community. Dorchester County Council approved 53-year tax incentive. Part of Google's broader $9 billion commitment to South Carolina through 2027.
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- Announced investment: The source note says investment is not broken out by site; the county figure it cites is combined for two Dorchester County campuses (Ridgeville and St. George).
What the source record says
Pine Hill Business Campus, Research Center Drive and Highway 17A, Ridgeville. Planned as part of Google's overall $9B SC commitment through 2027 (announced October 2025). MW capacity not disclosed by Google. investmentUsd not broken out by site; $2B is the combined Dorchester County (Ridgeville + St. George) figure. Second Dorchester campus at Winding Woods Commerce Park, St. George not separately tracked here. Coordinates are Ridgeville area centroid. FLAG FOR HUMAN REVIEW, not a confirmed no-change: Google's own South Carolina data-center page states a Dorchester County facility 'opens' in 2024, which is difficult to reconcile with this record's current status of 'under_construction' as of 2026-08-26. Ridgeville and St. George (Winding Woods, the other Dorchester County Google site in this dataset) are BOTH in Dorchester County and the source does not name which one it refers to -- I am not attributing this to one site over the other, and I am NOT asserting a status change, only flagging the discrepancy. It is also plausible this describes an early operational phase of a multi-phase campus while the overall project (this record) legitimately remains 'under_construction'. No capacityMw or jobs data was found for this site despite targeted checks of Santee Cooper (newsroom, generation-projects, board-meetings [JS-rendered, not retrievable], IRP, economic-development pages -- none name Google or this project), SC Governor's newsroom, SC Commerce newsroom, scbiz.com, Post and Courier (429 on every fetch), Live5/WCSC and ABCNews4/WCIV (client-side search, no results surfaced), and SC PSC's docket system (search requires an interactive form the static fetch could not submit). Dorchester County's own government site returned 403 Forbidden. web.archive.org (for the previously-cited datacenterdynamics.com Project Dawson article, and as a fallback for the bot-walled county/PSC sites) returned HTTP 429 rate-limiting on every attempt this run, both via source retrieval and direct direct retrieval, so that lane could not be worked at all.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024-09-26 · source-reported proposed
Google announced $3.3B SC investment including new Ridgeville campus (Project Dawson) at Pine Hill Business Campus
- 2024-09 · source-reported under construction
Groundbreaking at Research Center Drive and Highway 17A, Ridgeville; completion expected within 12–18 months of September 2024
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Google confirms it is behind Project Dawson data center campus in South Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Google grows South Carolina footprint with new Dorchester County operations – SC Governor press release · SC Governor's Office
- Google: Ridgeville, SC Data Center (Project Dawson) — site record · Baxtel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-ridgeville-sc. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000743
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Research Center Drive, Ridgeville, SC 29472 · Dorchester (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: September 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-09-26 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2024-09 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 231 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: Solar
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Property tax rate reduced to 4% (owner-occupied residential rate) for up to 53 years · Dorchester County, SC · 2024
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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