Things have changed significantly. Congress passed a law banning services from sending or storing data in adversarial nations including Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia. The change from the Biden to the Trump admin lead to Trump declaring the law banning TikTok would not take effect, allowing TikTok to continue operating.

Which is why I believe this voluntary sale is purely optics and that the data will continue being sent to and stored in Beijing.

All U.S. data traffic will be routed through Oracle Cloud.

This means the project will be maintained entirely online on rented and temporary servers.