ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity (Peter Millard/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/tiktok-creator-bytedance-picks-brazil-for-largest-data-center-outside-china"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260701/i13.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260701/p13#a260701p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Peter Millard / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/tiktok-creator-bytedance-picks-brazil-for-largest-data-center-outside-china">ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Cear&aacute;, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The TikTok creator's $39 billion data center is the latest payoff from Lula's courtship of Chinese investment.</p>