Will TikTok leave San Jose in ban takes hold? [Video]

The U.S. TikTok ban is raising questions about the app’s future in San Jose, where its Chinese parent company, Bytedance, is expanding its office space.   

President Joe Biden signed the ban into law on Wednesday, claiming national security risks, which would prohibit the downloading of TikTok from app stores if Bytedance doesn’t sell the app within nine months. 

Since 2022, the company has subleased more than 658,000 square feet of office space from Yahoo on Coleman Avenue in North San Jose, near San Jose Mineta International Airport, and expanded its footprint in March into the Roku building next door.   

“We have thousands of employees as well as 16 million users in California. We’re not going anywhere,” a company spokesperson told San Jose Spotlight.   

Economic development experts don’t see the company leaving Silicon Valley as a result — at least not any time soon.   

“There’s a reason they initially came to Silicon Valley, and it’s all …