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Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson)

Google · Ridgeville, SC · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Research Center Drive
Coordinates
33.096, -80.3239
Serving utility, source-reported
Not established
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
Not published
Source record updated
2026-10-28

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

  1. Under construction

    Groundbreaking at Research Center Drive and Highway 17A, Ridgeville; completion expected within 12–18 months of September 2024

    Underlying source
  2. Proposed

    Google announced $3.3B SC investment including new Ridgeville campus (Project Dawson) at Pine Hill Business Campus

    Underlying source

Source notes

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. The September 2024 state announcement does not break investment out by site; $2B is the combined Dorchester County (Ridgeville + St. George) figure. A $510M investment figure appears in a February 2024 Data Center Dynamics report, citing the Post and Courier, on the 231-acre Ridgeville site, which predates that announcement. Live 5 News (WCSC) reported in October 2024 that the $510 million project would build both Dorchester campuses, one in Ridgeville and one in St. George, so it is not settled that $510M is a Ridgeville-only figure, and no investment figure is recorded. As of October 2026, the second Dorchester campus, at Winding Woods Commerce Park, St. George, is listed separately as Google Winding Woods Campus. Coordinates are Ridgeville area centroid. Google's own South Carolina data-center page states a Dorchester County facility 'opens' in 2024, which is difficult to reconcile with this record being listed as under construction as of 2026-08-26. Ridgeville and St. George (Winding Woods, the other Dorchester County Google site in this dataset as of September 2026) are both in Dorchester County and the source does not name which one it refers to, so the statement is not attributed to one site over the other and no status change is asserted. It is also plausible this describes an early operational phase of a multi-phase campus while the overall project legitimately remains listed as under construction. Newer local sources describe both Dorchester County campuses as still being built: the Charleston Regional Development Alliance's October 2025 announcement of Google's $9 billion investment calls them 'projects that are now under active construction', and Dorchester County's data center fact sheet (archived copy captured 29 July 2026) says 'The data centers are being built in phases'. As of October 2026, no source found other than Baxtel, an aggregator, describes the Ridgeville campus as operational, so it remains listed as under construction. As of September 2026, no capacity or jobs data was found for this site in targeted checks of Santee Cooper (newsroom, generation-projects, board-meetings [JS-rendered, not retrievable], IRP and economic-development pages -- none name Google or this project), the SC Governor's newsroom, SC Commerce newsroom, scbiz.com, Post and Courier (not retrievable), Live5/WCSC and ABCNews4/WCIV (client-side search surfaced no results) and the SC PSC docket system (its search requires an interactive form, which could not be submitted).

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Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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