Putting the forced sale of Tiktok's US arm in doubt

Starting with one site in Memphis

Built out of an old coal fired power plant

Officials were worried about the residents in the area

New joint venture deals follow a similar Blackstone investment in 2019

Due to pop up across the US

Adding an Edge facility in another small US city

By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears

Fresh off of a new fundraising round

The identity of the data center company is unknown

The council still needs to buy the land before it can sell it though

The new data center joins a 200MW sibling facility nearby

The facility will be online next year

The IX provides customers the ability to interconnect for free

EdgePresence operates across eight US states

Verizon provides the bandwidth, Microsoft provides the apps

The markets claim they could move operations out to Dallas or elsewhere

Other data centers will be able to connect, if they pay their fair share

But it doesn't seem to be exclusive

He also took the time to clarify some of the big concerns about its security

Beowulf Energy hopes a joint venture can keep its struggling coal plant burning

The data center is the first of five planned projects on the campus

No foul play suspected

Investigations are underway as to what caused the transformer to fall