巴西渴望你的数据中心

○ By Peter Millard Glimpsed from the highway, half-hidden by fan palms and other vegetation, the symmetrical rows of 18-foot columns evoke the grand edifices of the Roman Empire. Up close, you’ll see that this is not some ancient ruin but a rising mon- ument to the geopolitical ambitions of a modern-day superpower: China. On this remote corner of Brazil’s Ceará state, hundreds of workers are building a data center for ByteDance, the creator of TikTok. The facility will be the company’s largest data center complex outside China, a project with a total estimated price tag of 200 billion reais ($38 billion). Construction manager Wellysson Costa can’t contain his enthu- siasm. …