ABBEVILLE, S.C. — Abbeville County Council is set to decide Monday night whether to put applications for data centers on hold for a full year, with the ordinance up for its third and final reading.
Members gather at 6 p.m. at the county’s administrative complex, 903 West Greenwood St., where the year-long pause appears as Ordinance 2026-05.
Council first took up the idea in September. At that meeting, Councilman Charles Goodwin said leaders from all 46 counties had been talking about data centers and artificial intelligence at a state conference, and he said the county had received no applications or submissions for one. County Director Brian Moon said the aim was to gather neutral information while the technology keeps changing.
The same agenda opens the incentive process for an unnamed industrial prospect the county calls Project Big Cat. Ordinance 2026-08, a fee in lieu of tax agreement, gets a first reading, and it would also enlarge the industrial park Abbeville County shares with Laurens County to take in the project site. A related resolution would approve an inducement agreement with the company.
Council also holds a public hearing and second reading on Ordinance 2026-07, which would drop the Abbeville County portion of McClain Road from the county road system. Other items include a final reading on a lease with Self Regional Healthcare for an oxygen tank, a resolution for a Christmas bonus for county employees paid from General Fund interest, and awards for county 911 workers.
Abbeville sits about 20 miles west of Greenwood.
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