This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Hands Mill Highway · York County · South Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001228
What the source record says
Site is near Hands Mill Highway and Campbell Road in unincorporated York County (Clover area). York County sold 173 acres to QTS on 2023-07-26; QTS also purchased additional private land, so total campus acreage exceeds the county-sold figure. investmentUsd reflects the $1 billion figure in the 2023 state announcement; York County's current page cites 'over $8 billion' in committed long-term investment for the campus. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of Hands Mill Highway. Re-checked 2026-09-13: the SC Commerce announcement (the record's own listed source) states no megawatt capacity figure and describes QTS only in generic colocation terms, so aiClassification cannot be confirmed for this specific site per contract rule F (an AI/GPU/HPC claim must be site-specific, not inferred from the operator's general business description). No community reception (support, opposition, hearings, or council votes) is documented in this source beyond standard economic-development congratulatory statements from the Governor, York County Council Chairwoman, and Secretary of Commerce, which describe state/county officials' reaction to the investment announcement, not documented public reception of the site by residents — declining to characterize these as community.status per contract's caution against treating officials' remarks as a proxy for public reception. Attempted qtsdatacenters.com (broken redirect to unrelated q.com domain), York County government site search (JS-rendered, no results retrievable via fetch), and a general web search for a capacity figure or local news coverage — all environmentally blocked (web search quota exhausted session-wide at time of this run; DuckDuckGo HTML search returned only a CAPTCHA page; bizjournals.com and heraldonline.com fetches were blocked/refused by the tool). No genuine negative finding is being claimed for capacityMw/aiClassification/community — this is an inconclusive search, not a confirmed absence.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2023-09-19 · reported proposed
S.C. Department of Commerce announced QTS's first South Carolina campus, a $1 billion investment in unincorporated York County.
- 2025 · reported under construction
York County states construction began in 2025, with nine buildings in various stages of development and site plans vested ahead of the county's July 2026 moratorium.
Sources and attribution
- QTS Data Centers establishing first South Carolina operations in York County · South Carolina Department of Commerce
- Data Centers — York County, SC (county information page on the QTS campus) · York County, South Carolina
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode for Hands Mill Highway, York County, SC · OpenStreetMap
- QTS York County Data Center Campus · QTS Data Centers
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-york-county-sc. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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