{"id":866747,"date":"2025-08-20T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/huawei-and-bytedance-plan-major-investments-in-tech-sectors-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:16:00","slug":"huawei-and-bytedance-plan-major-investments-in-tech-sectors-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/huawei-and-bytedance-plan-major-investments-in-tech-sectors-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei and ByteDance plan major investments in tech sectors in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Chinese tech giants Huawei Technologies and ByteDance are planning major investments in Brazil\u2019s cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence sectors, moves likely to deepen US concerns over Beijing\u2019s expanding digital reach in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Monday that Huawei is set to announce a deal with Dataprev \u2013 a state-run technology company that manages the country\u2019s social data systems \u2013 to use its data centres. Huawei is also in talks with Edge UOL, a cloud services arm of Grupo UOL PagSeguro, which also owns Folha.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Executives from Huawei and Edge UOL met in May in Dongguan, China, along with Brazil\u2019s secretary of digital governance Ricardo Leite and the Huawei Cloud division\u2019s Latin America president Mark Chen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cWe want to be the bridge between China and Latin America,\u201d Chen said, calling the Brazilian firm a \u201cstrategic service partner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Edge UOL Chief Operating Officer Rodrigo Lobo said that the partnership aimed to expand into infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI operations across Brazil.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<figure data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bitcoins Rodrigo Lobo of Edge UOL (left) with Mark Chen of Huawei\u2019s Cloud division. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/06\/17\/41583467-3abc-4e6a-b457-1ec0b987c170_efcf0a7d.jpg\" title=\"bitcoins Rodrigo Lobo of Edge UOL (left) with Mark Chen of Huawei\u2019s Cloud division. Photo: Handout\"><\/p><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\">Rodrigo Lobo of Edge UOL (left) with Mark Chen of Huawei\u2019s Cloud division. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The planned expansions come as the United States has stepped up warnings about Chinese investments in critical tech infrastructure across Latin America, citing risks of data theft, surveillance and strategic leverage.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p> Zonia Pingree <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3314663\/huawei-and-bytedance-plan-major-investments-tech-sectors-brazil?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giants Huawei Technologies and ByteDance are planning major investments in Brazil\u2019s cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence sectors, moves likely to deepen US concerns over Beijing\u2019s expanding digital reach in Latin America. The Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Monday that Huawei is set to announce a deal with Dataprev \u2013 a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33107,4752],"tags":[11476],"class_list":{"0":"post-866747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bytedance","8":"category-huawei","9":"tag-bitcoins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}