MegaFon operates a regional data center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, launched in 2025 as part of the telecom operator's effort to expand and modernize its domestic data center network. The facility provides colocation and supports the company's own cloud and digital services, and is designed so that higher-density racks can be added to raise its capacity for more demanding computing workloads. The company has described the site as part of a broader focus on energy efficiency and computing performance across its infrastructure. It serves customers in the surrounding region within Russia's domestic market.
| Distance | Site | About |
|---|---|---|
| 6.18 miles | Rostelecom Yekaterinburg |
MegaFon is one of Russia's largest mobile network operators and a provider of data center and cloud services, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Moscow. It grew from regional operators consolidated under a national brand and operates through federal branches covering the North-West, Central, Volga, Ural, Siberia, and Far East regions. In addition to its telecommunications business, the company runs a portfolio of data centers supporting its own services and enterprise customers, and it has continued to build new regional sites focused on energy efficiency and computing performance. The company is privately held within a larger Russian holding group. Its operations are shaped by a restricted external connectivity environment following international sanctions, including disconnection from a major European internet exchange and periodic security incidents affecting its network.
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President Vladimir Putin has allowed Russian companies to run workloads in data centers outside Russia, subject to approval by the FSB. The decree, signed on Nov. 2, also requires non-state Russian data center operators to reserve 10 percent of their space and capacity for government use. The...
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Rostelecom is in talks with Norilsk Nickel to build an underground data center in Russia, the business daily Vedomosti reported. The partly state-owned telecoms operator is developing buried data centers with an increased level of protection against external threats, the newspaper said, citing a...
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October 24, 2026 Russia / Россия
Ukrainian strike drones damaged a data center operated for Russia's Federal Tax Service in Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, overnight on Oct. 23. The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ and the Telegram outlet Astra reported the strike, which Data Center Dynamics covered the same day....
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September 19, 2026 Russia / Россия
Russia claims it struck the De Novo data center in Kyiv, Ukraine, one of the country’s largest data centers. According to Russian state news agency TASS, Russian forces carried out strikes earlier this week targeting Ukrainian industrial and infrastructure sites, including defense, energy,...
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October 02, 2025 Russia / Россия
The Russian telco Rostelecom this week said it is beginning construction of a new data center for the PhosAgro Group at the Volkhov branch of PhosAgro subsidiary Apatit JSC. A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place, and construction is expected to be completed by 2026.Denis Novikov, general...
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