After Covid delayed the project by a year-and-a-half

But more stringent data center rules on the horizon

First 80MW allocated as moratorium relaxed

Short-term thinking for short-form video site

Makes unsubstantiated and absurd suggestions about TikTok intentionally trying to impact Ukraine war

Will see IT provider reduce emissions by at least 90 percent

Making the bytes dance

Oracle Cloud is still the biggest winner of America's TikTok concerns

Over concerns on how Beijing-based TikTok handles US user data

ByteDance to be anchor tenant

Company was 'seeking clarification' over certain points ahead of new data center policy statement

Joining the hyperscalers in building custom hardware

Amid claims the company sent user data to China

GDS leads the pack - but Chinese cloud giants are slow to pick up renewable energy

Buzzfeed reports TikTok data will be in Oracle data center in Texas, but is on bare metal rather than Oracle Cloud

Threatening one of Google Cloud's largest deals

Microsoft has fallen back since last year, but Meta (Facebook) is storming away

Now expected late 2022

Clondalkin campus soon to be home to $500m data center

Post Trump, TikTok plans for growth

The Biden administration is less focused on social media

Putting the forced sale of Tiktok's US arm in doubt

By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears

He also took the time to clarify some of the big concerns about its security

Oracle nabs cloud hosting contract from Google

That's one way to get a large customer

So... checkmate?

Big retail joins big tech