ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, is considering a second phase of its data-center project in Brazil and seeking a developer to oversee it, Bloomberg reported on November 6, 2026. Citing people familiar with the process, Bloomberg placed the search at an industrial port in Ceará. It also reported that the project benefits from tax breaks for data exports.
The reported developer search concerns a proposed second phase; the power and resource plans below belong to the original campus.
The original Ceará campus provides context
In an account published August 2, 2026, KrASIA, republishing Nikkei Asia, described construction of the original campus as underway at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex. The report said operations were slated to begin in 2027.
The same account reported planned initial power demand of 300 megawatts, potentially rising to 1 gigawatt, and a plan for renewable energy to cover the campus’s power needs. These figures describe the original campus.
Earlier plans covered cooling, power and jobs
Silicon UK reported that the original project was planned to use closed-loop water cooling and wind-farm power. The outlet also quoted TikTok as saying the facility would draw neither local water supplies nor power from the grid.
Silicon UK attributed an estimate of about 4,000 direct and indirect jobs to TikTok. That figure was a projection for the original project, not a count of jobs created.
