Vitol Unit Acquires 600MW South Carolina Data Center Campus

VC Renewables, a subsidiary of global energy trader Vitol, has acquired a 600MW data center campus located in South Carolina, according to a corporate statement published by Vitol. The transaction with development firm Meridian Gridworks extends Vitol’s strategy of pairing energy supply directly with digital infrastructure. The project is designed to combine natural gas, solar power, battery energy storage, and fuel cell capacity to meet the substantial power requirements of the facility.

The development utilizes a powered land model, which links a large-scale data center campus directly with dedicated on-site power generation and energy storage assets alongside conventional utility grid connections. Meridian Gridworks, a data center, edge compute, and renewable development company founded in 2025, originally identified and secured the South Carolina site for its co-location potential. Under the terms of the deal, Meridian will continue to manage and oversee ongoing development at the campus.

Vitol and VC Renewables intend to apply their operational experience across natural gas, solar, and energy storage to build out the location as an integrated energy and technology hub. The acquisition forms part of Vitol’s broader initiative to bolster U.S. energy security, expand its natural gas presence along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, and scale its natural gas transportation, energy storage, and fuel cell infrastructure in South Carolina. "The rapid growth of digital infrastructure is creating significant demand for reliable, flexible and increasingly sustainable power," said Andrew De Pass, Head of Energy Transition Investments at Vitol Inc., noting that the group looks forward to developing a resilient, integrated solution with Meridian.

By combining Meridian's background in edge compute and data center site development with Vitol's trading, infrastructure, and capital capabilities, the partnership aims to address expanding power demand from technological infrastructure along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The companies stated that the project illustrates the type of multi-energy partnership model Vitol intends to deploy across similar digital infrastructure assets.