Rostelecom Novosibirsk News

 Nasdaq-listed tech giant, Yandex which was formerly referred to as “Russia’s Google,”  have been renamed as Nebius Group and pivoted to focus on AI following the company's agreement to sell its Russian operations to local management and investment firms.  The company said: “In addition to exp...

Russian ISP Tattelcom has launched a new data center facility in Kazan, in central Russia. The telco mentioned that this new 3,000 square meter facility will potentially host 400 racks and offer a 1.8MW capacity. The two phases of construction is scheduled to be completed by 2026. General dire...

The Amsterdam-based telco Operator group Veon has completed the sale of its Russian business to the senior management team of the PJSC VimpelCom (Beeline Russia) led by CEO Alexander Torbakhov. successfully exiting the Russian market. Veon Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu said, "The closing of the sal...

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

Rostelecom is proposing to build a new data center in Armenia. According to Tass, the Armenian subsidiary of Rostelecom, GNC-Alfa, intends to launch a 200-rack facility in Armenia at the beginning of 2024. Location and power capacity were not divulged. Last year, it was reported that Rosteleco...

Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and ...

Key Point and Rostelecom are teaming up to build a new data center on Sakhalin Island, off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan. In September 2022, Key Point signed an agreement with Sakhalin Oblast Governor Valery Igorevich to construct a data center in the Sakhalin Region, without provid...

Key Point Technologies, a Russian data center operator, has broken ground on a new facility in Novosibirsk. The data center is set to be one of the largest in Siberia, with a total capacity of 8MW. The Tier III quality facility will provide 8MW at completion. First announced in 2022, the fi...

Rostelecom intends to increase investment in the company's Rostelecom Armenia business subsidiary (formerly GNC-ALFA). Rostelecom instead intends to increase its investment in the business. That signals a U-turn on the company's part, which had appeared poised to sell its subsidiary to Electri...

Rostelecom has announced that it has launched a new data center in the Medvedkovo area of Moscow. Located on Chermyanskaya street, the facility will span 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft), offering six data halls with the capacity for 312 racks each. Further, it has been disclosed that the site has ...

The Russian Federation has announced its intent to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. To be situated in Buryatia, a Russian republic in eastern Siberia, the facility, upon completion, is pegged to contain 30,000 mining devices.Ac...

Russian mobile provider Rostelcom is apparently interested in acquiring Megafon, according to local publications. The prospective agreement is being explored at the government level, according to CNews. Rostelcom already controls another Russian mobile provider, Tele2, and is the sole propriet...

Key Point has announced the launch of a new data center in Primorsky Krai in far east Russia. The Russian data center developer has outlined that at full build-out, the facility will have capacity for 880 racks and 10MW. Its first phase saw the construction of two modules with a total capacity...

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

Rostelecom is reportedly looking to expand its presence in Armenia, after the company’s President Mikhail Oseevsky met with Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan and his deputy Narek Teryan this week to discuss plans.Speaking about this, the Armenian Ministry of the Economy said: "Durin...

Rostelecom has announced that it is developing a backup data center for Russia’s Yekaterinburg local government. The vice president and director of PJSC Rostelecom Yekaterinburg said: “Our team has already equipped the premises for the data center, having installed and launched all engineering...

Atos has announced it has begun a managed exit from Russia but outlined that the process would require "significant planning" due to its business operations and staff in the country.In a statement on its site, the company said: "Atos condemns the war in Ukraine, and we stand shoulder to should...

Rostelecom's Udomlya data center has entered its second phase. The launch features an 8MW facility with a capacity for 800 racks, and a new fiber-optic line. The facility first launched back in 2019 is located at the Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant in Tver and is a joint project with Rosener...