Showcase 01 · Coastal-industrial — site selection & data centers

Berkeley County, South Carolina

Charleston metro corridor · Google's SC data-center campus · Volvo Ridgeville · Camp Hall industrial campus

You already know this county. What no dataset has given you is where it stands against the thirty others on a client's list — on one absolute scale that means the same thing in Iowa or in Costa Rica. Berkeley's scored ground runs 25.5 to 56.0 out of 100 at 1 km resolution, and every number opens its own source.

The band above is the Arcanium ramp — red is weak ground, green is strong. In the analysis every tile in this county takes its color from its Index score, fitted 25.5–56.0 here.

WeakestStrongest 25.5–56.0 of 100 · 3,014 km² of land drawn

Berkeley County as it was scored, read-only. Every tile is the Index at one kilometre. Ranking sites, screening by factor, the dossier behind each tile and, on coastal ground, the sea-level scenarios open with an account — see plans or create one.

Where 1 km resolution earns its keep

Utility territory		¢ / kWh
Santee Cooper (SC Public Service Auth.)		11.38
Dominion Energy South Carolina		14.59
Berkeley Electric Cooperative		14.93
County range — five territories priced		11.38–14.93

You likely know these numbers. The point is not the rates but the grain: five territories inside one county, resolved per square kilometer rather than averaged into a single state figure — and the same treatment applies to every variable on this sheet. Berkeley Electric covers 82% of the county and Santee Cooper 14%, and the gap between them is 3.55¢. Residential average by territory, 2024; carried beside the score, never blended into it.

The strongest ground, ranked — from the county analysis

133.025, −80.152 Built density56.0

233.027, −80.163 Built density54.5

332.991, −80.039 Built density54.0

433.184, −79.989 Built density54.0

533.287, −79.693 Road access53.9

Arcanium Index, 0–100 absolute scale; county range 25.5–56.0. Each site opens a full dossier: every variable and a confidence rating.

3,385km² scored at 1 km, water included — about 250 acres a tile

9scored variables per tile

31%in-county spread in power cost

2035–2055five sea-level scenarios, by decade

The nine variables behind the score

WRIWater resourcehow much a site can reach, and how much of it flows

MSRDMinerals & subsurfaceknown occurrences in and around the site

IASInfrastructure accessdistance-decayed reach to major roads

APPAgricultural potentialwhat the ground can support, at fine grain

PGDPPopulation growthhow many are there now, and which way it moves

GRLIGovernance & rule of lawstability and security of ownership

CRHEClimate hazardphysical exposure on a world scale

EMIEconomic momentumwhether the surrounding economy is gaining

PDSDevelopment signalhow built-up the tile already is

Every value carries a confidence rating that falls when a number was broadcast from a coarser unit than the tile — the dossier states it per variable, per tile.

Measured, deliberately not scored: ECI — the residential ¢/kWh of the utility that actually serves the tile. It is reported beside the Index and never blended into it, because the right power price for a data center and for a grain dryer are not the same number, and a weight would decide that for you. The residential rate is the one class every utility files on the same basis, which is what makes two territories comparable.

What this sheet does not claim

The Index is a transparent, config-driven blend of measured fundamentals — it is not an appraisal and it does not know your business case. Coastal tiles carry sea-level scenario projections at 1 km resolution, stated honestly as such: the edge is drawn un-smoothed because the model holds no parcel-level precision.

This county has been analyzed at 1 km. Read the worked example, then name the ground you want scored the same way.

See the worked example →