US EditionTikTok to Invest More than US$37 Billion in Brazil Data Centre
The Anacê community opposes the 300MW data center over concerns about water use, biodiversity, and lack of consultation under ILO Convention 169, according to their legal advocates.
- Recently, the Anacê Indigenous people began protesting a planned 300-megawatt TikTok/ByteDance data center on their traditional lands in Caucaia, mobilizing soon after.
- Brazil is courting data-center firms with tax breaks, low costs and abundant sun and wind to power 24/7 operations, while the government has estimated $9 billion in investment to boost digital sovereignty and data storage.
- After an internal rift, community leaders say the project got a simplified environmental license under investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and that no free, prior and informed consultation occurred.
- With support from lawyers and NGOs, the Anacê have launched a peaceful legal campaign and Chief Roberto publicizes the struggle at COP30, while ByteDance and Casa dos Ventos pledge ongoing collaboration.
- Supercomputers are due to begin this year or in early 2026, Casa dos Ventos states, raising concerns about 24/7 water and energy use in drought-prone Caucaia and risks to Indigenous rights under Convention 169.
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Brasilia (EFE).- The company TikTok announced this Wednesday an investment of about 200 billion real (37,735 million dollars or 32,258 million euros) in the construction of a data center that will operate in Brazil. The announcement was made by the director of Public Policies of the subsidiary of the company of Chinese origin ... Read more
The Anacé Indigenous people are protesting TikTok’s construction of the largest data center in Brazil
Before getting into the details, Roberto Ytaysaba, who is from Brazil, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: neither he nor the Anacé Indigenous people, whom he leads, are against progress. “We’re not against progress if it respects the communities, nature, spirituality, the autonomy of [native] peoples and Convention 169,” he clarifies, one recent morning in his village. Seguir leyendo
Buenos Aires, 4 December (NA) – The social media giant TikTok selected Brazil as the headquarters of its first data center in Latin America, a project announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that is considered a key engine for the technological development of the country. The massive investment amounts to about 200,000 million reais (approximately 37,380 million dollars) in the coming years and will be established in the Industrial and …
The social network TikTok, owned by Chinese group ByteDance, confirmed that it will make a record investment of more than 200,000 reals (approximately 37.7 billion dollars) to build a data center in Brazil, the first in Latin America. The project will be developed in the industrial complex of Pecém Port Complex, a strategic location due to its proximity to submarine cable routes and key network connections that shorten transmission latency to Eu…
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