Business
How the companies here actually make money
A company announces three hundred jobs and the coverage stops there. These pieces take one South Carolina business apart instead: what it really sells, who pays it and why they keep paying, why it sits where it sits, and what would break it. Built from filings, permits, job postings, and county records.
Greenville's Grid Can Probably Absorb the Data Center Boom, but Only If South Carolina's Unwritten Large-Load Tariff Has Teeth
The Upstate owns the nuclear and pumped storage a demand spike needs, but who funds building ahead of the data centers turns on a tariff South Carolina has not written yet.
A $2.8 Billion Data Center Is Landing on the Old Kohler Site in Spartanburg, and the Upstate Still Cannot Agree on What It Gets
NorthMark's $2.8B AI data center on Spartanburg's former Kohler plant would burn gas for 450-plus MW on site; the jobs and tax numbers in the public record do not match.