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Reported geography
Source-reported location for QTS York County Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Hands Mill Highway · York County · South Carolina
- Official metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 22 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001228
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.
- Electric utility
- York Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 173 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1 billion
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent · 1,000 construction
- Announced
- 19 September 2023
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Coordinating Council for Economic Development Set-Aside grant (to York County for site preparation) · South Carolina · 2023 · $200,000 (as stated) Open cited source →
- Fee-in-Lieu of Tax (FILOT) agreement · York County, South Carolina · 2023 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Water. York County states the campus uses a closed-loop cooling design that 'saves over 48 million gallons of water annually per data center'; no wells are planned and the site is connected to York County water and sewer utilities.
What the source record says
Site is near Hands Mill Highway and Campbell Road in unincorporated York County (Clover area). York County sold 173 acres to QTS on 2023-07-26; QTS also purchased additional private land, so total campus acreage exceeds the county-sold figure. investmentUsd reflects the $1 billion figure in the 2023 state announcement; York County's current page cites 'over $8 billion' in committed long-term investment for the campus. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of Hands Mill Highway. Re-checked 2026-09-13: the SC Commerce announcement (the record's own listed source) states no megawatt capacity figure and describes QTS only in generic colocation terms, so aiClassification cannot be confirmed for this specific site per contract rule F (an AI/GPU/HPC claim must be site-specific, not inferred from the operator's general business description). No community reception (support, opposition, hearings, or council votes) is documented in this source beyond standard economic-development congratulatory statements from the Governor, York County Council Chairwoman, and Secretary of Commerce, which describe state/county officials' reaction to the investment announcement, not documented public reception of the site by residents — declining to characterize these as community.status per contract's caution against treating officials' remarks as a proxy for public reception. Attempted qtsdatacenters.com (broken redirect to unrelated q.com domain), York County government site search (JS-rendered, no results retrievable via fetch), and a general web search for a capacity figure or local news coverage — all environmentally blocked (web search quota exhausted session-wide at time of this run; DuckDuckGo HTML search returned only a CAPTCHA page; bizjournals.com and heraldonline.com fetches were blocked/refused by the tool). No genuine negative finding is being claimed for capacityMw/aiClassification/community — this is an inconclusive search, not a confirmed absence.
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
- 2023-09-19 · source-reported proposed
S.C. Department of Commerce announced QTS's first South Carolina campus, a $1 billion investment in unincorporated York County.
- 2025 · source-reported under construction
York County states construction began in 2025, with nine buildings in various stages of development and site plans vested ahead of the county's July 2026 moratorium.
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.
- QTS Data Centers establishing first South Carolina operations in York County · South Carolina Department of Commerce
- Data Centers — York County, SC (county information page on the QTS campus) · York County, South Carolina
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode for Hands Mill Highway, York County, SC · OpenStreetMap
- QTS York County Data Center Campus · QTS Data Centers
- Gilbane marks steel topping-out milestone for data center campus in Upstate South Carolina · Gilbane Building Company
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-york-county-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001228
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.
Location and precision
- Hands Mill Highway, SC · York (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: QTS Data Centers
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: 19 September 2023
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2023-09-19 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 173 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.
- Electric utility: York Electric Cooperative
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent · 1,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Coordinating Council for Economic Development Set-Aside grant (to York County for site preparation) · South Carolina · 2023 · $200,000 (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Fee-in-Lieu of Tax (FILOT) agreement · York County, South Carolina · 2023
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-22
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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