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The state and county pitched the project as approximately 200 permanent operations jobs plus roughly 1,200 construction jobs at peak, with a formal groundbreaking on September 26, 2024. Power is served by Berkeley Electric Cooperative, the local cooperative that covers the Ridgeville corridor. Google has not publicly disclosed critical IT megawatts, building square footage, or a firm commercial-operation date; the site is under construction. 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An initial $3.3 billion commitment (September 2024) was followed by an additional two-year $9 billion investment announced in October 2025 for 2026 to 2027. 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A 2024 milestone on that page notes Google opened its newest data center in Dorchester County ([Google Data Centers, South Carolina](https://datacenters.google/locations/south-carolina/))","sourceUrl":"https://datacenters.google/locations/south-carolina/"},{"label":"Berkeley origin / site names (primary)","value":"SC Commerce notes the Berkeley County Mount Holly / Moncks Corner operation was established in 2007 as Google's first South Carolina data center. Dorchester County Economic Development frames the Oct 2025 $9 billion package as building on the 2024 Dorchester campus announcements then under active construction ([SC Commerce, Sept 26 2024](https://www.sccommerce.com/news/google-grows-south-carolina-footprint-new-dorchester-county-operations-expansion-berkeley); [Dorchester County Economic Development](https://www.dorchesterforbusiness.com/news/google-expands-investment-in-dorchester-county/))","sourceUrl":"https://www.sccommerce.com/news/google-grows-south-carolina-footprint-new-dorchester-county-operations-expansion-berkeley"},{"label":"Dorchester acreage (press-reported)","value":"Data Center Dynamics reported the Ridgeville / Pine Hill campus at about 230 acres (1055 Research Center Drive) and the St. George / Winding Woods campus at about 206 acres acquired earlier in 2024 under project aliases including Project Dawson / Mallard LLC and Project Evergreen / Gannett Enterprises LLC. Treat acreage and shell-company names as press-reported, not Google-primary ([DCD, Sept 27 2024](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-breaks-ground-on-two-data-center-campuses-in-south-carolina-at-33bn/))","sourceUrl":"https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-breaks-ground-on-two-data-center-campuses-in-south-carolina-at-33bn/"},{"label":"Dorchester jobs / Cloud-AI demand (primary)","value":"South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster's Sept 26, 2024 release states the two new Dorchester County campuses represent a $2 billion investment creating 200 new operational jobs and will support growing demand for Google cloud services and AI, while the Berkeley County Mount Holly expansion is framed as a $1.3 billion investment supporting continued job growth ([SC Governor, Sept 26 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