TikTok doubles down in Europe with new $500 million Irish data center as it faces being hounded out of the US

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• TikTok announced Thursday it's setting up a new €420 million ($498 million) data center in Ireland.
• The data center is slated to open in early 2022, and will house user data from TikTok's European users.
• This comes just as TikTok is having to brace itself against hiving off its US business.
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As TikTok faces getting squeezed out of the US, the company appears to be shoring up its European operations.

In a blog post on Thursday, TikTok's global chief security officer Roland Cloutier announced plans to build a new data center in Ireland costing €420 million ($498 million), which will play a "key role in further strengthening the safeguarding and protection of TikTok user data."

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