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Meta Aiken Data Center
Graniteville, Aiken County, South Carolina · All 28 Meta sites · Every Meta case on our tracker
Meta Aiken Data Center is a data center under construction in Graniteville, South Carolina (Aiken County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced August 2024, 200 MW planned, 300 acres, a reported $800 million investment. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Meta
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Graniteville, Aiken County, SC
- Coordinates
- 33.5629, -81.8287
- Power capacity
- 200 MW planned
- Land
- 300 acres
- Investment
- $800 million
- Announced
- August 2024
- Utility
- Aiken Electric Cooperative
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 100 permanent; 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Supported
- 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.
- September 2024Under constructionDPR Construction leading build; Governor McMaster attended groundbreaking ceremony Source: Post and Courier / Aiken Standard
- August 30, 2024ProposedMeta publicly announced Aiken County data center campus, 22nd US data center Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Meta Aiken Data Center in Graniteville, Aiken County, South Carolina, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of September 10, 2026. Governor Henry McMaster attended groundbreaking.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.
Governor Henry McMaster attended groundbreaking. County leaders describe project as one of the largest private investments in Aiken County history. Three-year recruitment process by county.
Power and water
Meta working with Aiken Electric Cooperative to add new renewable energy to the grid for the facility
Notes on the record
Sage Mill Industrial Park, Graniteville. 715,000 sq ft; Meta's 22nd US data center. Explicitly optimized for AI workloads. Administration building constructed with mass timber. Expected operational spring 2027. Coordinates are Graniteville area centroid. Subsidies lane checked 2026-09-10: Aiken County offered property-tax breaks to Meta as early as 2023, under the pre-announcement code name 'Project Sabal' and intermediary 'Starskey LLC'. No dollar figure or FILOT ordinance number found this run -- not filing a structured subsidies entry, flagging the lane for a follow-up pass to locate the actual FILOT agreement/ordinance.
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
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.
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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.
- QTS Project Eisenhower · Augusta · QTS Data Centers12 mi · Under construction · Contested
- Google Evans Data Center · Evans · Google25 mi · Proposed
- White Oak Technology Park · Appling · Trammell Crow Company (CBRE subsidiary)26 mi · Permitted · In litigation
- Savannah River Site AI Data Center (Amentum) · Amentum27 mi · Proposed · 1 GW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Meta Aiken Data Center in Graniteville?
Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Meta Aiken Data Center in Graniteville, Aiken County, South Carolina, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of September 10, 2026. Governor Henry McMaster attended groundbreaking.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Aiken Data Center?
No lawsuit over Meta Aiken Data Center 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 Meta Aiken Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Meta Aiken Data Center 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 Meta Aiken Data Center, and how big is it?
Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 200 MW. The site is recorded at 300 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Aiken Data Center," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-aiken-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/meta-aiken-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.Meta plans $800m data center campus in Aiken County, South Carolina · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Facebook owner Meta selects Aiken County for first South Carolina data center · Post and Courier / Aiken Standard · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Aiken data center nearing completion · WFXG (Augusta/Aiken local news) · retrieved July 17, 2026
- 4.Meta selects Aiken County for first South Carolina data center · Office of the Governor of South Carolina · retrieved August 26, 2026
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