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Data center campus · 1055 Research Center Drive, Pine Hill Business Campus, Ridgeville, Dorchester County, South Carolina

Google Ridgeville data center campus (Pine Hill Business Campus)

Under construction as of Oct. 15, 2025

Google is building a data center campus on about 230 acres at the county-owned Pine Hill Business Campus near Ridgeville, a site first pursued under the aliases Project Dawson, Autumn Timber and Mallard LLC. Also known as: Project Dawson, Mallard LLC, Autumn Timber LLC.

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PowerNot statedNot reported in the records found
Site230acres

Who is behind it

ProjectGoogle Ridgeville data center campus (Pine Hill Business Campus)Also: Project Dawson, Mallard LLC, Autumn Timber LLC
Developer and teamGoogle (through Mallard LLC)
End userGoogle

The record, newest first

  1. Google's $9 billion South Carolina announcement included completing the two Dorchester County campuses. (ABC News 4 (WCIV), Oct. 13, 2025; Data Center Dynamics, Oct. 15, 2025)

  2. The governor's office announced two new Google campuses in Dorchester County, at Pine Hill in Ridgeville and Winding Woods in St. George, totaling $2 billion and 200 jobs; groundbreaking was reported that week. (Office of Gov. Henry McMaster, Sept. 26, 2024; Data Center Dynamics, Sept. 27, 2024)

  3. Google confirmed it had bought the Pine Hill land and planned a $510 million data center there. (Post and Courier, Feb. 15, 2024; WCSC Live 5 News, Feb. 15, 2024)

  4. The S.C. Public Service Commission approved Dominion Energy South Carolina's economic development rider contract with Mallard LLC, requiring annual reports showing other customers do not subsidize it. (Post and Courier, Feb. 13, 2024)

  5. Reporting tied a Dominion Energy power contract for a data center user called Mallard LLC to the Pine Hill site near Research Center Drive, after county council approved incentives and a land deal for Autumn Timber LLC the month before. (Data Center Dynamics, Nov. 21, 2023)

Conflicts and open questions

  • Acreage reported as 230 or 231 acres; an earlier county land deal with Autumn Timber LLC covered about 268 acres.
  • The fixed-rate incentive terms come from reporting; the county ordinance text was not located.
  • Separate site from Google's Berkeley County campus, about 20 miles west of it.
  • Power capacity not publicly reported.
  • Coordinates approximate, Pine Hill Business Campus area near Ridgeville.

The full record

Status note
Google broke ground in September 2024; reporting in October 2025 said construction was continuing.
Evidence
Primary public records
Size class
50 MW or more (tracker scope)
Map position approximate, from the reported address or area. Updated Oct. 17, 2026.