2 data center projects in Unincorporated Colleton County
Who decides here: the Colleton County Council decides on zoning for land outside city and town limits.
In Unincorporated Colleton County
Eagle Rock data center campus on Cooks Hill Road (ACE Basin)
Unincorporated Colleton County, Colleton County
859 acres
🕒 July 6, 2026: Colleton County's 6-month data center moratorium took effect; a conservation group pause…
ProposedRhodes Technology Park data center campus
Unincorporated Colleton County, Colleton County
1,200 acres · for unknown (developer says one large tech company)
🕒 Sept 2026: Colleton County passed a new digital infrastructure overlay district; Eagle Rock present…
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Local votes and rules
🗺️ Zoning change
Colleton County Council unanimously created a Digital Infrastructure Overlay District that opens much of the county's rural land to data centers, with rules on noise, buffers, site size and cooling. More than 5,000 people signed a petition against it.
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
Colleton County Council unanimously passed a six-month pause on special exceptions, conditional uses and other approvals for data centers. In September, council lifted the pause west of I-95 and on land already zoned industrial.
⚖️ Court case
Two residents, with lawyers from the Southern Environmental Law Center, sued Colleton County over the rule letting data centers into rural districts. They say it breaks state law, the county plan and the zoning code, and that notice was not proper. The case was paused in July 2026 while the county moratorium is in place.
🗺️ Zoning change
Colleton County Council changed its zoning so data centers can be allowed by special exception in two rural zoning districts. Residents sued, saying it breaks state law and the county plan, and could bring industry into the ACE Basin.
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in Unincorporated Colleton County. - Go to county meetings.
Anyone can speak. Big projects usually need a public hearing. - Ask questions in writing.
Use our checklist.
🔔 Get told first
⚡ Your electric company
Depending on where you live in Unincorporated Colleton County: Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. (company) or Coastal Electric Co-op, Inc. (not available) or Edisto Electric Co-op, Inc. (co-op (owned by its members)).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in South Carolina.
🙋 Open tasks here
- Has Eagle Rock Partners formally dropped the Cooks Hill Road site?
- Who is the tech company that would use the Rhodes Technology Park?
- How much water would the campus use?
- When will County Council vote on the development agreement?
- Does the overlay district end the county's data center moratorium for this site?