Editor’s note for March 28, 2023

A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.

Dear reader,

Strange times we live in: A TikTok data center is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition, according to a Norwegian company. “We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos,” Morten Brandtzæg told the Financial Times.

Read on for more on strange times and TikTok.

Our Word of the Day is: U.S. TikTok hearing (TikTok 美国听证会 TikTok měiguó tīngzhèng huì).