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Google Winding Woods Campus
St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Winding Woods Campus is a data center under construction in St. George, South Carolina (Dorchester County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced 2026, 206 acres.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- St. George, Dorchester County, SC
- Coordinates
- 33.1843, -80.5793
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 206 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- 2026Under constructionGoogle's second South Carolina campus, in Winding Woods Commerce Park, St. George (Dorchester County); part of a $9B SC investment Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Winding Woods Campus in St. George, Dorchester 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
Google's second SC campus, in Winding Woods Commerce Park, St. George, Dorchester County; part of a $9B South Carolina investment (statewide figure, not a single-campus capex). Distinct from Google's Ridgeville, SC campus. IT capacity not disclosed. Coordinates are the St. George area centroid. FLAG FOR HUMAN REVIEW, not a confirmed no-change: same Dorchester County 'opens 2024' milestone as flagged on google-ridgeville-sc -- see that record's note for the full reasoning; it applies identically here since St. George/Winding Woods and Ridgeville are both in Dorchester County and the source does not disambiguate. No water/cooling, address, investmentUsd, jobs, or subsidies data was found for this site despite the same targeted checks described on google-ridgeville-sc (Santee Cooper newsroom/generation-projects/board-meetings/IRP/economic-development, SC Governor's newsroom, SC Commerce newsroom, scbiz.com, Post and Courier, Live5/WCSC, ABCNews4/WCIV, SC PSC docket system, Dorchester County's own site [403], and web.archive.org [429 rate-limited on every attempt this run]). Google's own site's '$13B invested in South Carolina since 2007' and 'Google signs 225-megawatt renewable energy deal' (2023) figures are both explicitly NOT attributed to any single facility by the source itself, so per the hard rule against guessed attribution I am not assigning either to this record's investmentUsd or capacityMw/energy fields.
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
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
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.
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- 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.
- Google Ridgeville Data Center (Project Dawson) · Ridgeville · Google16 mi · Under construction · Supported
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Winding Woods Campus in St. George?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Winding Woods Campus in St. George, Dorchester 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 Google Winding Woods Campus?
No lawsuit over Google Winding Woods 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 Google Winding Woods Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Winding Woods 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 Google Winding Woods Campus, and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 206 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Winding Woods Campus," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-winding-woods-st-george-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/google-winding-woods-st-george-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.Google to invest $9bn in South Carolina data centers · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.Baxtel, Google: Winding Woods Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved July 25, 2026
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