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TikTok to invest €1bn in second Finnish data center
Comes after the company pulled back on plans for its Ireland location
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Trump signs EO bringing TikTok sale closer, as Oracle looks to partner with MGX, Fox, and Silver Lake for acquisition
Trump backers headline list of expected acquirers
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Oracle leads US TikTok acquisition consortium, as Trump extends shutdown deadline
Deal appears to finally be close
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Brazilian indigenous community files complaint to halt TikTok data center
Concerns about indigenous rights, the environment, and the constitution
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Oracle, Blackstone, a16z back in the running to buy TikTok - report
Group tries again despite previous bid stalling
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Casa dos Ventos granted approval to construct TikTok backed 300MW data center in Brazil - report
Operations slated for January 2027
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TikTok plans €1bn data center in Finland
Continues to expand European infrastructure
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ByteDance considers data center for TikTok in Brazil - report
Company reportedly in talks with renewable energy producer Casa dos Ventos
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TikTok commits $8.8bn to data centers in Thailand
Follows January's $3.8 billion agreement in the county
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TikTok to invest $3.8bn in Thai data hosting service
Unclear how many data centers, and whose facilities they will be
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Trump confirms Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
Competing against Oracle, MrBeast, and others
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US Supreme Court to review TikTok ban delay request
ByteDance hopes to make it till Trump's next term
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TikTok owner ByteDance eyes Thailand data center - report
Could open as soon as next year
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US DoJ alleges TikTok has been storing sensitive US customer data on China-based servers
Claims made in response to legal challenge against forced sale of the app
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TikTok ban could hit Oracle's cloud profits
Cloud provider includes warning to investors in annual report
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TikTok owner ByteDance to expand Malaysia data center footprint in $2.1bn AI deal
Minister hails boost for Malaysia's digital economy
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TikTok opens data center in Dublin, Ireland
After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half
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Green Mountain gets green light for TikTok data center from Norwegian gov’t
But more stringent data center rules on the horizon
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Singapore selects Equinix, Microsoft, AirTrunk, and GDS for 80MW data center trial
First 80MW allocated as moratorium relaxed
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Green Mountain to build 90-150MW data center for TikTok in Norway
Making the bytes dance
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TikTok: Two more data centers in Europe, CFIUS pressured to conclude probe on whether to separate US org
Oracle Cloud is still the biggest winner of America's TikTok concerns
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Bridge Data Centres launches new facility in Johor, Malaysia
ByteDance to be anchor tenant
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TikTok: Future investment in Ireland "reliant" on data center policy
Company was 'seeking clarification' over certain points ahead of new data center policy statement
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ByteDance hires for in-house AI chip development
Joining the hyperscalers in building custom hardware
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Meta and TikTok drive US data center leasing boom
Microsoft has fallen back since last year, but Meta (Facebook) is storming away
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TikTok's €420m Irish data center delayed due to Covid-19 construction shutdowns
Now expected late 2022
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TikTok reportedly picks Echelon for Irish data center
Clondalkin campus soon to be home to $500m data center
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US Commerce Department decides not to enforce TikTok ban
Putting the forced sale of Tiktok's US arm in doubt