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Google data center in Ridgeville, South Carolina

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Sep 26, 2024, in Dorchester County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Ridgeville, Dorchester County, South Carolina.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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RidgevilleDorchester County
Reported capacity
236MW
Planned, as Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) reports it. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Google
The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    DC BLOX Camp Hall Data Center Campus

    24.5 miles away

  • Builds in Berkeley County

    2

    Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in South Carolina

    18

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Google, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • GoogleOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
Under constructionCompute Atlas · Aug 26, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported capacity
236 MWServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Site area
231 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$1.65BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
200Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Sep 26, 2024Compute Atlas · Aug 26, 2026
Construction start reported
Sep 26, 2024Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Expected completion
2027Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
Ridgeville, Dorchester County, South CarolinaCompute Atlas · Aug 26, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
SolarKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Cooling
Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
AI workload
Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Aug 26, 2026
Facility type
AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
Property tax rate reduced to 4% (owner-occupied residential rate) for up to 53 years (Dorchester County, SC)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the building area, the general contractor's name and the utility.

Who's involved

Operator
GoogleCompute Atlas · Aug 26, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  2. · Server Country

    Construction start

  3. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  4. · Server Country

    Expected completion

  5. Date not reported · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

  6. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Reported as announced

  7. Date not reported · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

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In South Carolina

All South Carolina data center builds

The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 18 published builds in South Carolina, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.

Questions this page answers

Is Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson) under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Aug 26, 2026), Compute Atlas (Jul 25, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it as under construction.
Who is building Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson)?
Google is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson) expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in 2027. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson)?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson) get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Under construction
  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, as “Google Winding Woods Campus”
  • Server Country: Under construction, as “Google Pine Hill Business Campus Data Center”
  • Server Country: Under construction, 236 MW, as “Google Winding Woods Commerce Park Data Center”

Updates

  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
  • Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • 2027: Expected completion. Server Country
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Sep 26, 2024: Construction start. Server Country
  • Sep 26, 2024: Announced. Compute Atlas

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The building area, the general contractor's name and the utility.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson)”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/google-ridgeville-data-center-project-dawson-sc-dc_f691e8c5a145, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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