{"id":720498,"date":"2026-04-08T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktok-is-spending-e1b-on-a-second-finnish-data-centre\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:25:10","slug":"tiktok-is-spending-e1b-on-a-second-finnish-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktok-is-spending-e1b-on-a-second-finnish-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok is spending \u20ac1B on a second Finnish data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok\u2019s \u20ac12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland\u2019s defence ministry app<\/a>roved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. A former minister publicly called for the project to be reconsidered.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n

TikTok<\/span><\/a> is investing \u20ac1 billion ($1.16 billion) to build a second data centre in Finland, the company announced on Wednesday. The new facility will be located in the Kiverio district of <\/span>Lahti<\/span>, a city of around 121,000 people in southern Finland. <\/span><\/p>\n

It will have an initial capacity of 50 megawatts and a potential total capacity of 128 megawatts. Construction is expected to be completed within a year, with the centre operational by 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lahti investment is the second in Finland and part of Project Clover, TikTok\u2019s \u20ac12 billion European data sovereignty programme designed to store and process the data of more than 200 million European users on European soil. <\/span><\/p>\n

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TikTok\u2019s first Finnish data centre, in Kouvola, is due to come online by the end of 2026. European user data is currently held with enhanced safeguards across three sites in Norway, Ireland, and the United States. The company has positioned both Finnish investments as steps toward removing European data from US-hosted infrastructure entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement arrives at a complicated moment. <\/span>ByteDance<\/span><\/a>, TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company, narrowly avoided a US ban in January over data protection concerns. <\/span><\/p>\n

In Europe, regulators and governments are intensifying pressure on social media<\/a> platforms over children\u2019s safety, a dynamic that makes the company\u2019s willingness to commit billions to European infrastructure both a business necessity and a political calculation. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day TikTok announced the Lahti centre, Greece announced it would ban children under 15 from social media altogether from January 2027, with its prime minister explicitly calling on the EU to follow suit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The political reception in Finland has been uneven. Finland\u2019s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wille Rydman, who was then minister of economic affairs, publicly called for the project to be \u201creconsidered\u201d when it became public, citing security concerns and what he described as a lack of transparency around the company\u2019s plans. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rydman told Finland\u2019s public broadcaster Yle that he hoped TikTok\u2019s local property partner would reconsider whether it wanted TikTok as a tenant. The mayor of Lahti, Niko Kyyn\u00e4r\u00e4inen, took a different view, welcoming the investment as substantial for a city of its size. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finland has become an increasingly popular location for hyperscale data centre investment, attracting major operators including Microsoft and Google, in part because of its cool climate, access to low-cost renewable energy, and stable regulatory environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n