Data Center Registry

Project Boulder

Colleton County, South Carolina · All 6 Eagle Rock Partners sites

ProposedContestedAI likelyRecord updated October 22, 2026

Project Boulder is a proposed data center in South Carolina (Colleton County), operated by Eagle Rock Partners. The public record puts it at 1 GW planned, 860 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Eagle Rock Partners
Facility type: Data center, AI use likely
Location: Cooks Hill Road, Colleton County, SC
Coordinates: 32.7000, -80.6200 (approximate)
Power capacity: 1 GW planned
Land: 860 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Dominion Energy South Carolina
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: Contested
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Project Boulder in Colleton County, South Carolina is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Facing zoning-appeals opposition and a county moratorium reconsideration.

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.

Facing zoning-appeals opposition and a county moratorium reconsideration.

Source: SC Daily Gazette

Power and water

Grid-delivered, tied to a specific but unbuilt regional gas plant, not on-site/behind-the-meter generation.

Notes on the record

Near the ACE Basin (Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto estuary). Would be South Carolina's first gigawatt-scale data center if built; speculative, no named tenant. Coordinates are approximate.

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
Permanent jobs promised

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.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.

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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.

Rhodes Technology Park · Eagle Rock Partners26 mi · Proposed · 1 GW · Contested

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Project Boulder data center in Colleton County, South Carolina?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Boulder data center?

No lawsuit over Project Boulder appears in the record we track as of October 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 Project Boulder use?

No water withdrawal figure for Project Boulder 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 Boulder, and how big is it?

Eagle Rock Partners is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 1 GW. The site is recorded at 860 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Boulder," updated October 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/project-boulder-colleton-county-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/project-boulder-colleton-county-sc, retrieved October 29, 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.Gigawatt data center proposal draws opposition from SC Lowcountry residents, politicians · SC Daily Gazette · retrieved July 9, 2026
2.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
3.News From The States (Yahoo mirror), Gigawatt data center proposal draws opposition from SC Lowcountry residents, politicians · retrieved July 24, 2026
4.Who will pay to run the Colleton County data center? · retrieved September 10, 2026
5.Proposed Data Center Campus in Colleton County · retrieved September 10, 2026

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