SAO PAULO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Omnia, a data center

company owned by Brazilian investment firm Patria, said

on Monday it has joined the project to develop a 50 billion real

($9.25 billion) data center in Brazil that is expected to have

TikTok as its sole client.

Omnia partnered with the Brazilian renewable energy

generator Casa dos Ventos to develop the facility, which will be

located in the Pecem port complex in the northeastern state of

Ceara, executives from both firms told Reuters.

Brazilian government officials have publicly said that

TikTok is involved in the project, although ByteDance, the

Chinese parent company of the short-video app, declined to

comment on the matter.

Sources familiar with the project confirmed to Reuters the

data center will have TikTok as its client. Patria and Casa dos

Ventos also declined to comment.

With an expected power consumption of 300 megawatts, the

project is set to be the largest single-client data center in

Brazil, with construction scheduled to begin this year and

operations expected to kick off in 2027, according to the

executives.

The project will require 50 billion reais in investments,

with Omnia expected to fund 12 billion reais in infrastructure,

while the remaining investment will be made by the client,

targeting information technology equipment such as processing

servers, the executives said.

Casa dos Ventos will also invest an additional 3.5 billion

reais in the construction of new wind farms dedicated to supply

energy for the facility, according to Lucas Araripe, executive

director at the firm.

The Brazilian government authorized on Monday the future

data center to provide data export services, according to a

decision published on the official gazette.

"This will be the first data center focused on exporting

data in the country," Omnia CEO Rodrigo Abreu said.

Brazil has been seeking to position itself as a sustainable

hub for data centers given its renewable energy availability.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has also signed a project

for federal tax exemptions in the sector.

($1 = 5.4039 reais)