Omnia, the data center company owned by Brazilian investment fund Pátria, is to develop a data center in Brazil, with an estimated investment of 50 billion reais ($9.4bn), which will exclusively serve TikTok, reports Reuters.

The firm has reportedly signed a partnership with Casa dos Ventos, a Brazilian company specializing in renewable energy. The facility will be built in the Pecém port complex, in the state of Ceará.

Representatives of the Brazilian government have publicly stated that TikTok is involved in the initiative, although ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the short video platform, has not commented.

Sources with knowledge of the project told Reuters that TikTok will be the client for the data center. Pátria and Casa dos Ventos also declined to comment on the matter.

The project is expected to consume an estimated 300MW of electricity, making it the largest data center dedicated to a single client ever built in Brazil, according to executives involved in the initiative. Construction work is expected to begin this year, with commissioning scheduled for 2027.

Total expected investment is estimated at 50 billion reais. Omnia will be responsible for approximately 12 billion reais ($2.25bn), earmarked for the construction of the data center's physical infrastructure - including buildings, cooling systems, security, connectivity, and energy supply. The remaining amount will be contributed by the client, focusing on the acquisition and installation of information technology equipment, such as servers, data storage systems, networks, and other computing components essential to the operation.

Patria Investimentos, a former owner of OData, recently launched Omnia, a hyperscale data center platform aimed at meeting the growing demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Reports that Patria was involved in the TikTok data center surfaced over the summer.

Casa dos Ventos has announced that it will invest around 3.5 billion reais ($653m) in the construction of new wind farms. These ventures will be dedicated specifically to supplying electricity to the future data center under development at the Pecém port complex in the state of Ceará. According to Lucas Araripe, the company's executive director, the aim is to guarantee a clean, stable, and long-term source of energy for the facility's operation, in line with the project's sustainability goals.