In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energy<\/p>\n
It is a warehouse the size of 12 football pitches that promises to create much-needed jobs and development\u200b in Caucaia city, north-east Brazil\u200b. But it won\u2019t have shelves stocked with products. This vast building will be a datacentre, believed to be earmarked for TikTok\u200b<\/strong>, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app\u200b, \u200ba\u200bs part of a 55bn reais (\u00a37.3bn) project\u200b<\/a> to expand its global datacentre infrastructure\u200b.<\/p>\n As the demand for supercomputer facilities rises, fuelled by the AI boom, Brazil is attracting more and more tech companies<\/a>. The choice of Caucaia is no accident. Several undersea cables carry data from the nearby capital of Cear\u00e1 state, Fortaleza, to other continents. The closer to the cables, the greater the traffic capacity and the lower the latency, or response time, between two points on the internet network.<\/p>\n