TikTok to Invest $37B+ Into Brazil Data Center

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ByteDance’s TikTok plans to invest more than 200 billion reais ($37.7 billion) in a major data center project in Brazil.

This marks the company’s first venture of this scale in Latin America and signalling the rapid expansion of digital infrastructure across the region.

The announcement highlights China’s broader ambitions in South America at a time of ongoing geopolitical and technological tensions with the US.

Brazil’s digital future

Monica Guise, head of public policy at TikTok Brazil, said TikTok will partner with Omnia, a data-center developer, and Casa dos Ventos, one of Brazil’s renewable-energy providers, to build the enormous facility in the northeastern state of Ceará. The project will sit near ...