cute kittens who play with their ball of wool or smear their mustaches while drinking from their bowl of milk, are slowing down the ammunition manufacturing intended for the invasion of Ukraine. It sounds crazy, but it is what the weapon factory Norway nammo, whose main enemy is… Russia? No, TikTok.
We live in a dark age where the arms industry breaks profit records. ammunition orders have multiplied by 15 in the last year, due to the invasion of Ukraine.
nammo it’s a weapons maker which belongs to the Finnish and Norwegian governments. As explained by its CEO Morten Brandtzæg in the Financial Times, the daily manufacture of artillery ammunition has increased from 6,000 to 65,000 units.
And as in any business, when demand exceeds production, you have to expand factories. This is where the problems begin for Nammo.
TikTok wins the war
A data center of TikTok has recently been built near the nammo weapons factory. AND consumes so much electricitythat the ammunition factory cannot be expanded.
“We are concerned as we see our future growth being threatened by the storage of cat videos“, says the CEO of Nammo.
The local power company in Norway, Elvia, affirms that no one has privileges when it comes to accessing electricity. The first to arrive, the first to keep it. TikTok You reserved a certain amount of power for your data center, and they can’t take it away.
Ensures that yes Nammo asks for more electricity for one new factoryit will take time because before they would have to expand their own electrical network.
But the arms manufacturer disagrees, and believes that they should have priority:”Critical industry must have access to energy“, he assures. And he continues with a very worrying sentence: “I do not think that (war) be something specific, but a future trend“.
It still goes further. believes that China could be behind it allinducing TikTok to set up next to a weapons factory to remove the electricity: “I do not rule out that it is not pure coincidence that this activity is close to a defense company“, says Brandtzæg in the interview. “I can’t rule it out.”
The reality is that many technology companies set up their European data centers in Norway why there renewable energy is usedand since it is very cold, refrigeration is cheaper.
The videos of kittens of TikTok they suck all the electricity of Norwayand prevent a weapon factory can be expanded. On the one hand we should rejoice, but on the other that ammunition it is so Ukraine can defend itself against Russia. Difficult dilemma…