TikTok Plans To Build €1 Billion Data Center In Finland

TikTok plans to invest €1 billion ($1.14 billion) to build its first data center in Finland as part of its effort to relocate data storage for European users to the continent, a TikTok spokesperson confirmed.

TikTok launched "Project Clover" in 2023—a comprehensive data security framework backed by a €12-billion, 10-year investment plan designed to address regulatory pressure on both sides of the Atlantic. I Photo: TikTok

This development was reported by Supantha Mukherjee, Foo Yun Chee, and Anne Kauranen for Reuters. TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, has faced intense scrutiny over concerns that the Chinese government could access European user data.

In response, the company launched "Project Clover" in 2023—a comprehensive data security framework backed by a €12-billion, 10-year investment plan designed to address regulatory pressure on both sides of the Atlantic.

Various governments and institutions—including the European Parliament, the European Commission, and several countries—have banned TikTok from official devices due to privacy concerns.

The U.S. government has also threatened to ban the app unless its U.S. operations are divested. TikTok maintains that these concerns are “misguided and based on fundamental misconceptions.”

According to TikTok’s website, European user data is stored in a dedicated “European data enclave” hosted across data centers in Norway, Ireland, and the U.S.

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