Make Memes not War

Norwegian munitions firm Nammo is finding its ability to expand production of anti-tank and artillery rounds for Ukraine limited because the local electricity supplier has contracted all future capacity to a data center to hosting Tik-Tok.

“We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos,” Morten Brandtzæg, Nammo chief executive, told the Financial Times.

The FT notes that Nordic region’s lower electricity costs and cooler climate are attractive to the data center industry, breeding concern that other energy-intensive industries will be forced out.

“It will be a big fight,”said one industrialist in northern Sweden where such a conflict is brewing. “Do we want green steel or data centres for Facebook?”