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Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus

Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina · All 3 Cielo Digital Infrastructure sites

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 10, 2026

Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus is a proposed data center in Gaffney, South Carolina (Cherokee County), operated by Cielo Digital Infrastructure, LLC. The public record puts it at announced June 2025, 300 MW planned, a reported $2.1 billion investment.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Cielo Digital Infrastructure, LLC
Facility type
Data center
Location
Ford Road, Gaffney, Cherokee County, SC
Coordinates
35.0666, -81.5576 (approximate)
Power capacity
300 MW planned
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
$2.1 billion
Announced
June 2025
Utility
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
30 permanent
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
No reception on record
Source confidence
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. June 2025
    Proposed
    Announced by the S.C. Governor's office and S.C. Department of Commerce as Cielo's first South Carolina development project. Source: Office of the Governor of South Carolina

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus in Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

Announcement describes four buildings of roughly 400,000 sq ft each plus an associated electrical substation, at '000 Ford Road, Gaffney'. Initial operations expected online by year-end 2028. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of Ford Road, no parcel-level location was published. A 300 MW full-build-out figure appears in trade coverage but is not stated in the state announcement, so capacity is omitted here.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Land area
  • How the community has received it
  • Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Land area
The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus in Gaffney?

Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus in Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus?

No lawsuit over Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus appears in the record we track as of September 10, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus, and how big is it?

Cielo Digital Infrastructure, LLC is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Cielo Digital Infrastructure Gaffney Campus," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cielo-gaffney-cherokee-county-sc.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/cielo-gaffney-cherokee-county-sc, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Cielo Digital Infrastructure selects Cherokee County for first South Carolina development project · Office of the Governor of South Carolina · retrieved August 26, 2026
  2. 2.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode for Ford Road, Gaffney, Cherokee County, SC · OpenStreetMap · retrieved August 26, 2026
  3. 3.Digital infrastructure company to invest $2.1B in Cherokee County data center · retrieved September 10, 2026

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