A Norwegian arms manufacturer said that a TikTok data center is eating all the electricity in the region, meaning that the company cannot keep up with the surging global demand for ammunition. Experts are increasingly commenting on the massive demands of big tech companies, and how energy usage by their data centers is causing issues for other industries. The country has a surplus of renewable energy — mostly hydropower — and is a popular destination for data centers due to cold temperatures which reduce the requirement to use power to cool down the computers