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Social video platform Tik Tok will open its long-planned European data centre in Ireland early next year, in an investment believed to be worth about €600 million.
The video-sharing service is investing more than initially expected, due to the increased capacity of the centre. It will initially have a capacity of 30 megawatts, ramping to 60 megawatts by the end of 2023.
Tik Tok has signed contracts download video tiktok no wm with a third-party data provider and construction on the site is under way on the Dublin data centre.
The move will allow Tik Tok to store almost all data from UK and European Economic area (EEA) users on servers in the EU, rather than in Singapore or the US, with Tik Tok delivering on a key principle of its data governance strategy.
“Tik Tok’s long-standing commitment to our community in Europe is to provide an entertaining and fun platform, with the peace of mind that we are protecting users’ privacy and data,” Tik Tok Europe’s head of privacy Elaine Fox said. “This extensive ramp up in our operations and personnel are tangible steps that show what that commitment to Europe looks like in practice.”