Data center profile · Off Old Pecan Road / Pecan Tree Road and Highway 78, near Winding Woods Commerce Park, St. George, Dorchester County, South Carolina

Google Winding Woods (St. George)

Google's second Dorchester County, South Carolina campus, 206 acres near Winding Woods Commerce Park outside St. George, planned to follow Pine Hill as demand requires.

Land acquired, timing unclear. Google holds 206 acres and filed for an air permit for backup generators in 2024. It said in 2025 that both Dorchester campuses were under construction, but no construction report specific to this site exists, and earlier reporting said Pine Hill would come first.
206 acres
acquired near Winding Woods Commerce Park
about 18 miles west of Ridgeville (press)
$5.55M
county purchase option for the land
granted Feb. 2024 (press)
250 tons
a year each of NOx and CO sought in the air permit
emission limits for emergency generators, not MW
OperatorGoogle (through Gannett Enterprises LLC)
CustomerGoogle (own use, planned)
First building in serviceOur estimate: 2029 or later (no dated power path yet).
Next stepNo schedule published; Google planned to expand here as demand requires
Power

Power and the grid

Sources on record, size not disclosed

Getting on the grid

Permits

Permits checklist

1 pending · 1 granted · 1 checked, nothing on file

State and county records on file.

Risks

What could slow it down

Lawsuits

1 case on record

Money

Money on record

$5.55M
land purchase option
Feb. 2024 News report · Feb. 2024
$2B
both Dorchester campuses combined (state)
with 200 jobs; not a Winding Woods figure State agency · Sept. 2024
Timeline

What happened, and what is due

SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
  1. Feb. 15, 2024
    Site Google, as 'Project Evergreen', gets a $5.55M county option on 206 acres; Pine Hill is to come first News report · Feb. 2024
  2. Sept. 26, 2024
    Site Google announces two Dorchester County campuses, Pine Hill and Winding Woods State agency · Sept. 2024
  3. Nov. 6, 2024
    Power Google says Edisto Electric Cooperative will serve the campus; the county had redacted its water needs (press) News report · Nov. 2024
  4. Nov. 2024
    Permits State opens public comment on Google's air permit for the St. George site News report · Nov. 2024
  5. 2025
    Site Google completes the purchase of the 206 acres (press) News report · Oct. 2025
  6. Oct. 14, 2025
    Construction Google says both Dorchester campuses broke ground in 2024 and are under construction; no site-specific report confirms work here News report · Oct. 2025
  7. Feb. 5, 2026
    Legal Press recounts that a resident's 2024 lawsuit forced the county to publish the site's water needs News report · Feb. 2026
Who is involved

Owners, partners and builders

Owners
  • Google: owner
  • Gannett Enterprises LLC: Google entity for the site
Decision-makers
  • Dorchester County
  • SC Department of Environmental Services: air permit
Power partners
  • Edisto Electric Cooperative: named by Google as the serving utility
Still unknown

Open questions

Where this comes from

32 records from 8 documents

Drawn from news reports and state agency records, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.

News report 6State agency 2
Evidence

Every quote behind this page

Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.

Power (1)
  • Utility: Edisto Electric Cooperative (per a Google spokesperson) - NOT Dominion Energy and NOT Berkeley Electric Cooperative for this campus
    “A Google spokesperson said the data center will be served by Edisto Electric Cooperative and the pollution limits are for emergency generators that would be used in case of a power outage.”
    News report · Nov. 2024 · grade C
Money and contracts (7)
  • County code: 45035
    “The new Dorchester County facilities, located in the Pine Hill Business Campus in Ridgeville and Winding Woods Commerce Park in St. George, represent a $2 billion investment”
    State agency · Sept. 2024 · grade A
  • $2B and 200 jobs are COMBINED Dorchester figures (Pine Hill + Winding Woods + shared), NOT Winding Woods-only figures
    “The new Dorchester County facilities, located in the Pine Hill Business Campus in Ridgeville and Winding Woods Commerce Park in St. George, represent a $2 billion investment and will create 200 new operational jobs.”
    State agency · Sept. 2024 · grade B
  • Google acquired ~206 acres near Winding Woods Commerce Park under the Project Evergreen codename / Gannett Enterprises LLC, with a $5.55 million purchase option granted by the county (reported Dec 2025). Google is sequen
    “the company reportedly aims to focus on the Pine Hill campus for now, and will expand to the Winding Woods site as demand requires”
    News report · Dec. 2025 · grade C
  • water agreement: water needs redacted
    “Dorchester County, for example, complied with the technology firm's request to redact projected water needs from an agreement the two sides reached over the St. George project.”
    News report · Nov. 2024 · grade C
  • The Dorchester/Google tax terms reported for the county package (4% assessment, up to 53 years, personal-property tax refund) are stated for Dorchester/Google GENERALLY in the source article and are NOT allocated to Wind
    “including a reduction in property taxes to a fixed rate of 4 percent of the assessed value of any land and buildings the company owns and occupies for up to 53 years.”
    News report · Nov. 2024 · grade C
  • 206 acres near Winding Woods Commerce Park along Pecan Tree Road and Highway 78, outside St. George - Winding Woods land only, never to be merged with Pine Hill's 231 acres
    “has also is purchasing 206 acres for a proposed third data center near the county's Winding Woods Commerce Park along Pecan Tree Road and Highway 78, outside the town of St. George”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C
  • land option: purchase option 5550000 USD
    “The company was granted a $5.55 million purchase option for the land this month.”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C
Permits and government (1)
  • DES is reviewing Gannett Enterprises' air permit application for the St. George : Air permit application - PUBLIC NOTICE and comment period
    “The S.C. Department of Environmental Services is reviewing the internet giant's application for an air permit and is soliciting comments from the public through Dec. 3.”
    News report · Nov. 2024 · grade C
Legal (1)
  • A resident sued Dorchester County in 2024 over the redaction of projected water needs from the St. George water agreement, alleging an open-records violation; the suit forced the county to publicise water requirements. N
    “It took a resident suing Dorchester County in 2024 to force the county to publicize water requirements for a Google data center located near rural St. George.”
    News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
Site and other (6)
  • Project status: UNDER CONSTRUCTION per Google's 2025 announcement as reported (both Dorchester campuses 'broke ground in 2024 and are currently under construction') - but Feb 2024 reporting said Google would focus on Pin
    “The funding will support the expansion of Google's Berkeley County campus and continued development of two new data center campuses in Dorchester County, which broke ground in 2024 and are currently under construction.”
    News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
  • Site acreage: 206 acres
    “Google, going by the aliases Project Evergreen and Gannett Enterprises LLC, acquired 206 acres in the park earlier this year.”
    News report · Oct. 2025 · grade C
  • Project status: announced only
    “However, the company reportedly aims to focus on the Pine Hill campus for now, and will expand to the Winding Woods site as demand requires.”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C
  • Sequencing: Pine Hill first; Winding Woods expansion only as demand requires (no Winding-specific construction timeline shared)
    “However, the company reportedly aims to focus on the Pine Hill campus for now, and will expand to the Winding Woods site as demand requires.”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C
  • Project identity: Google Winding Woods Campus ('Project Evergreen'), Winding Woods Commerce Park, off Old Pecan Road / Pecan Tree Road and Highway 78, outside St. George, SC; Google entity Gannett Enterprises LLC; 206 ac
    “The Post and Courier also reports that Google, going by the aliases Project Evergreen and Gannett Enterprises LLC, has also is purchasing 206 acres for a proposed third data center near the county's Winding Woods Commerce Park”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C
  • Developer: Google (Project Evergreen; entity Gannett Enterprises LLC)
    “Google, going by the aliases Project Evergreen and Gannett Enterprises LLC, has also is purchasing 206 acres”
    News report · Feb. 2024 · grade C