Data Center Registry
Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville)
Graniteville, Aiken County, South Carolina · All 5 Oppidan Investment Company sites
Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) is a permitted data center in Graniteville, South Carolina (Aiken County), operated by Oppidan Investment Company (Clop Aiken SC LLC). The public record puts it at announced June 2025, 15 MW planned, 13 acres, a reported $32 million investment.
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Facility record
Permitted
- Operator
- Oppidan Investment Company (Clop Aiken SC LLC)
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Graniteville, Aiken County, SC
- Coordinates
- 33.5637, -81.8079 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 15 MW planned
- Land
- 13 acres
- Investment
- $32 million
- Announced
- June 2025
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- 0.0003 million gallons a day, reported
- Jobs
- 6 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Fee in lieu of property taxes (FILOT), Aiken County, 2025
- 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.
- June 10, 2025PermittedAiken County Council approved the project under a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Clop Aiken SC LLC. Source: WGAC
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 22, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) in Graniteville, Aiken 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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Power and water
County reporting describes water needs of about 300 gallons per day, comparable to a single house; 0.0003 MGD is that stated figure expressed in the schema's units.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee in lieu of property taxes (FILOT) | Not established | Aiken County | 2025 |
Notes on the record
60,000 sq ft facility on 13 acres adjacent to Sage Mill Industrial Park, north of Fields Cemetery Road. Status recorded as permitted on the sourced county-council FILOT approval; one aggregator lists it as under construction, which no source read this session confirms. FILOT amount is not disclosed, so subsidies carries the program only. Coordinate is the Graniteville town centroid (approximate), no street number is published. Separate site from the tracked Meta Aiken campus.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
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- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
- Meta Aiken Data Center · Graniteville · Meta1 mi · Under construction · 200 MW · Supported
- DC BLOX North Augusta Hyper Edge Data Center · North Augusta · DC BLOX8 mi · Under construction · 5 MW
- QTS Project Eisenhower · Augusta · QTS Data Centers13 mi · Under construction · Contested
- Google Evans Data Center · Evans · Google26 mi · Proposed
- Savannah River Site AI Data Center (Amentum) · Amentum27 mi · Proposed · 1 GW
- White Oak Technology Park · Appling · Trammell Crow Company (CBRE subsidiary)27 mi · Permitted · In litigation
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) in Graniteville?
Nothing on record as of September 22, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) in Graniteville, Aiken 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 Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville)?
No lawsuit over Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) appears in the record we track as of September 22, 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 Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville) use?
0.0003 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. County reporting describes water needs of about 300 gallons per day, comparable to a single house; 0.0003 MGD is that stated figure expressed in the schema's units.
Who operates Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville), and how big is it?
Oppidan Investment Company (Clop Aiken SC LLC) is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 15 MW. The site is recorded at 13 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Clop Aiken Data Center (Sage Mill, Graniteville)," updated September 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/oppidan-clop-aiken-graniteville-sc.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/oppidan-clop-aiken-graniteville-sc, retrieved October 1, 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.Aiken County approves $32 million data center project in Graniteville · WGAC · retrieved September 22, 2026
- 2.dcmap.us, South Carolina data center map (Oppidan Sage Mill Industrial Park, Graniteville, under construction) · dcmap.us · retrieved September 22, 2026
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