TikTok is reportedly planning to spend €1 billion ($1.14bn) on its first data center in Finland.

The Chinese-owned social network confirmed the news to Reuters in a brief statement after the news agency had been briefed by two sources familiar with the company’s plans.

It is not clear whether TikTok intends to build its own data center or lease space at a third-party facility, and the company has provided no details of the precise location, IT capacity, or planned construction timelines for the data center. DCD has contacted TikTok for comment.

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, launched Project Clover, an initiative to move European user data to local servers, in 2023, in response to concerns over data security raised by lawmakers.

The company now occupies all three buildings at Green Mountain’s OSL2-Hamar campus in Norway. Plans for Green Mountain to provide a data center campus to TikTok were revealed in March 2023, with the first data center completed that December and initially planned to go live in Q2 of 2024. It was only in October 2024 that the company officially began moving its European data to the campus.

TikTok also has a data center in Ireland, which is part of Project Clover and came online in 2023.

Elsewhere, the company is also considering building a data center in Brazil, and has pledged to spend $8.8 billion on digital infrastructure in Thailand.

Meanwhile, TikTok’s future in the US remains uncertain. ByteDance has been told to divest its US operations or face the app being taken offline for American users over security concerns. As yet, no preferred bidder for the company has emerged, despite a raft of reported interest.