The Norwegian company Nammo, one of the largest European arms companies specializing in the manufacture of ammunition, has warned that it will not be able to meet the requests it receives from many NATO countries to help Ukraine, due to the presence of a data storage center from China. The social network TikTok consumes the power it needs.
The European Union has just approved a plan to buy 1 million artillery shells to send to Ukraine, which includes meticulously requiring manufacturers to maximize their production capacity.
The complaint appeared two days ago when the company’s president said Morten Brandzig, They admitted to the Financial Times that they were “concerned because we see our future growth being challenged by video storage” in the same area as their factories.
growing hostility
The case adds to the growing atmosphere of hostility on the part of European institutions towards the Chinese-origin social network. The committee and parliament have already banned the use of TikTok on their computers for fear that it could become a gateway to espionage by the Chinese authorities. And one of the ways that this company decided to follow to avoid criticism was precisely to establish its data centers on the European continent, in order to ensure that the data of the community’s users would not leave the jurisdiction of the European Union.
This month, Norwegian company Green Mountain signed a contract with TikTok to support its growing data storage needs in Europe, starting with a 150-megawatt hub that will be the largest in the country, with the first phase going live this November anus. . They chose the Hamar region in central Norway because there was theoretically an excess of renewable energy. Nammo, which has important facilities in this particular region, has been counting on this surplus when expanding its production capacity to meet the urgent need for Ukrainian artillery ammunition.
different caliber
Right now, Ukrainians shoot between 5,000 and 10,000 rifles a day and are increasingly dependent on weapons donated by NATO countries, which use a different caliber than the Soviet standard they’ve used so far, so they can’t make the same ammunition.
the Elvia, the Norwegian electricity company She confirmed that she had already committed to powering TikTok available and didn’t anticipate Nammo might need it, but insists its policy is still a first-come, first-served ordering window.
The European Union has put two billion euros on the table to compensate countries for the money they spend on purchasing artillery ammunition for Ukraine, as long as they are made on the territory of the European Union or in Norway.
