As South Carolina continues to be flooded with data center proposals, Spartanburg County citizens have decided to push back. Following a heated county council meeting, a petition has sparked renewed scrutiny over how these facilities are approved, who benefits from them, and who bears the costs. At the center of the debate are familiar questions that this outlet raised just last month: taxpayer-subsidized infrastructure, rising utility demands, and the issue of local government spending taxpayer money to raise the costs of utilities on said taxpayers.
Just last month, this outlet released a deep dive on data centers moving to South Carolina, including Google’s recent announcement of $9 billion investment into the low country. South Carolina currently has roughly 31 data centers that are either operational or under construction. Palmetto State Watch also held an in-depth discussion with the public on the “good, bad, and the ugly” of these data centers that is recorded HERE.
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