Data Center Registry

Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County)

Manning, Clarendon County County, South Carolina

ProposedContestedRecord updated October 10, 2026

Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) is a proposed data center in Manning, South Carolina (Clarendon County County), operated by Undisclosed data center company. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Undisclosed data center company
Facility type: Data center
Location: Manning, Clarendon County County, SC
Coordinates: 33.6383, -80.2708 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Santee Electric Cooperative
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Contested
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.

August 19, 2026
Proposed
County says a data center has contracted with Santee Electric to secure one of its buildings in Ram Bay Industrial Park. Not yet official. Source: Clarendon County

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) in Manning, Clarendon County County, South Carolina is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Residents pushed back.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

Residents pushed back. The county presented a first reading of a data center moratorium on Aug. 10, 2026 and published a fact sheet on Aug. 19, 2026.

Source: WIS

Power and water

Awaiting the results of Santee Electric's power-capacity study. Santee Electric buys its power from Santee Cooper.

Per the county notice: ~40,000 gallons for the initial closed-loop fill, serviced about every 10 years, plus ~4,000-8,000 gallons per day of grey water for restrooms and irrigation. The City of Manning approved water capacity.

Notes on the record

An existing Santee Electric-owned building in Ram Bay Industrial Park, Manning. The pin is Ram Bay Road, not the building. Third-party trackers list a 15 MW 'Project 59 (Clarendon County Industrial Park)' that probably refers to this site, but neither the name nor the 15 MW was confirmed in a source read this session, so both are omitted.

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.

Power capacity in megawatts
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Land area

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
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.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) in Manning?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County)?

No lawsuit over Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) appears in the record we track as of October 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 Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County), and how big is it?

Undisclosed data center company is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Potential Data Center, Ram Bay Industrial Park (Clarendon County)," updated October 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/clarendon-county-ram-bay-data-center-manning-sc.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/clarendon-county-ram-bay-data-center-manning-sc, retrieved October 11, 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.Public Notice: Potential Data Center - Addressing Concerns, Answering Questions (as of Aug. 19, 2026) · Clarendon County · retrieved October 10, 2026
2.Clarendon County administration responds to pushback on proposed data center · WIS · retrieved October 10, 2026
3.OSM Nominatim: Ram Bay Road, Clarendon County · OpenStreetMap · retrieved October 10, 2026

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