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TikTok pledges €12B European investment over 10 years as work on Norwegian data center begins | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so no change in terms of legality of the enterprise. Personally I'm in favor of regulating Youtube and Tiktok to the point that they're truly socially responsible and only slightly profitable but that's mostly irrelevant to data center location discussion.

In terms of benefits of investing in data center in Norway I could list:

using renewable energy sources in a location that's very good at those
staying at regulators arms length
jobs

So I think this is good news.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Letting people build a Heroin-Cyanide candy factory would also bring jobs, I still think it should be illegal.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -2 points 11 months ago

That's a fair point but it would require outlawing YouTube too.