Data Center Registry
Project Boulder
Colleton County, South Carolina · All 3 Eagle Rock Partners sites
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.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
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
- 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.
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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Boulder data center in Colleton County, South Carolina?
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.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Boulder data center?
No lawsuit over Project Boulder 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 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 3 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 September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/project-boulder-colleton-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-boulder-colleton-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.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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