In late August, an Indigenous group in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the country’s northeast, brought a formal complaint before federal authorities, asking them to halt the development of a TikTok data center they said was being built on their land.
Sitting under a tall cashew tree, Cacique Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé, a leader of the community, recalled how, until a few months ago, he did not know what a data center was. Now, he’s determined to stave off the giant Chinese social media…








