TikTok is now operating from all three of its data center buildings developed by Green Mountain in Norway.
Part of Project Clover - a €12 billion ($13.2bn) initiative to enable TikTok to keep European data in Europe and meet European data security standards - the data center is the last on the OSL2-Hamar campus.
Meanwhile, in the US, the deadline for a sale of TikTok's American operations approaches.
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.
In an interview with DCD during the summer of 2024, Green Mountain's CEO Svein Atle Hagaseth said that the project had been slowed due to delays in getting approval for a new substation.
TikTok also has a data center in Ireland, which is part of Project Clover and came online in 2023.
With all three data centers up and running in Norway, TikTok has stated that European cybersecurity group NCC Group was contracted to "independently oversee, check, and verify our data controls and protections, monitor data flows, provide independent verification and report any anomalies, a level of transparency and oversight unmatched amongst online platforms."
TikTok said it is also working with Green Mountain to explore waste heat reuse initiatives that could see heat from the facilities being delivered to other local properties. The three data centers employ a total of around 200 people, including IT engineers, electricians, and cooling specialists.
TikTok's US sale looms
Meanwhile the deadline for the sale of TikTok's US operations - similarly motivated by security concerns - approaches.
It is currently unclear who will acquire the company, with several firms putting their pitches in. In March 2025, President Donald Trump said he was in talks with "four different groups," though he did not name them.
Bidders have been battling since December 2024 when TikTok lost an appeal against the US government's decision to ban its service in the country, and the app was briefly taken offline while still under President Biden. When Trump came back into office, he signed an executive order seeking to delay the ban by 75 days, bringing the deadline to April 5.
In just the last few days, Reuters reported that Amazon has put in a bid for the company as well as a consortium led by OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has also reportedly been in talks to invest in the social media platform as part of a bid led by Oracle and other investors. Microsoft is also said to be bidding for the company.
Towards the end of last month, reports emerged that some companies looking to acquire TikTok - such as smaller investor groups - were having talks with Microsoft and Google about potentially using other cloud platforms to keep the app running. The company's US operations are currently hosted by Oracle and have been exclusively since 2022, following an unsuccessful effort to alleviate national security concerns.
