Data Center Registry
Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II)
Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina
Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) is a cancelled data center in Prosperity, South Carolina (Newberry County), operated by Undisclosed developer (Project Altair). It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Undisclosed developer (Project Altair)
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Prosperity, Newberry County, SC
- Coordinates
- 34.2099, -81.5339 (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
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Opposed
- 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 3, 2026CancelledNewberry County Council voted unanimously to deny the land-sale ordinance at third reading, reversing the first two readings, and then moved to a 12-month moratorium on accepting new data center permits. Source: WIS News 10
- April 15, 2026ProposedNewberry County held a public hearing on an ordinance to enter an option and purchase agreement with 'Project Altair' for remaining acreage in Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II; the developer intended to lease to a data center tenant building several buildings. Santee Cooper was conducting an electrical grid capacity study for the area. Source: Newberry County, South Carolina
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) in Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents at a packed public hearing objected over water-supply strain, electric-rate increases, industrial noise and loss of the county's rural/agricultural character.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
Residents at a packed public hearing objected over water-supply strain, electric-rate increases, industrial noise and loss of the county's rural/agricultural character.
Notes on the record
The end tenant and the developer were never named publicly; 'Project Altair' is the county's code name. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of Prosperity, SC, Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II did not resolve in OSM. Recorded as cancelled because the enabling land-sale ordinance was denied and a 12-month county moratorium followed. Re-checked 2026-09-10: 'cancelled' status remains accurate and is now more strongly confirmed. Newberry County Council unanimously voted to DENY the land-sale ordinance in June 2026, then on 2026-07-15 confirmed a 12-month moratorium on accepting any new data-center permits countywide.
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
- Land area
- 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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with 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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) data center in Prosperity?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) in Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents at a packed public hearing objected over water-supply strain, electric-rate increases, industrial noise and loss of the county's rural/agricultural character.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) data center?
No lawsuit over Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) 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 Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II) 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 Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II), and how big is it?
Undisclosed developer (Project Altair) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Altair (Mid-Carolina Commerce Park II)," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/project-altair-newberry-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/project-altair-newberry-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.Newberry County Government's Statement on Data Centers (Project Altair / Ordinance 03-01-2026) · Newberry County, South Carolina · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 2.Moratorium on data centers put in effect after Newberry County residents raise concerns · WIS News 10 · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 3.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode for Prosperity, Newberry County, SC · OpenStreetMap · retrieved August 26, 2026
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