TikTok plans to invest 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in building a second data center in Finland. The company is moving the storage of European user data to Europe, Reuters reports.
The announcement comes as TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, avoided a ban in the United States in January over data protection concerns, and as European countries step up pressure on social media companies to protect children from their addictive algorithms.
TikTok said it will build a new data center in Lahti, southern Finland, with an initial capacity of 50 megawatts and a potential total capacity of 128 megawatts. The investment will amount to 1 billion euros.
This investment is part of the company’s “€12 billion European Data Sovereignty Initiative,” which TikTok says provides “the industry’s best protection for the data of over 200 million European users.”
