By Bill Rauch The 859-acre data center complex proposed by developers to be built east of I-95 at the headwaters of the Ashepoo River outside Walterboro, if it goes forward, will be the gravest threat to the ACE Basin in its relatively short history.The proposed complex would be built off Cooks Hill Road on a Weyerhauser timber tract that is…

It is Thursday, Sept. 18, and I’m sitting in a wood-paneled room in Ridgeland, S.C. It is 8 p.m., and most of the 35 other people in this small, jammed-packed room are jubilant; happy because the Ridgeland Town Council has just voted, 4-1, to reject the proposed annexation, proposed rezoning and proposed development agreement presented by Tickton Hall Investments, LLC;…