Norway military ammunition maker can't increase production for Ukraine because of TikTok

[thewayne]

What a story! The factory wants to expand production of ammo for Ukraine as they are consuming massive amounts of it. Except there's one problem. TikTok is building data centers around the world so countries can have their data hosted within their border.

Data centers require HUGE amounts of energy.

And there's none left for the factory to expand and increase production. Energy in Norway is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and TikTok got allocated before the factory did. And it will take some time for more energy to become available.

You just can't make shit like this up.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/28/energy-hungry-tiktok-data-centre-ukraine-ammunition-production-nammo-norway

Comments

[silveradept]

With that description given, I'd say we have multiple of that particular problem, much as I wish it weren't so.