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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September 26, 2025 Russia / Россия
Yandex Cloud will launch another Russian availability zone in 2026, based at a new data center. The facility will have a capacity of more than 40MW and a claimed PUE of 1.1, achieved through the use of free-cooling technology throughout the data center.In a blog post announcing the news, Ivan...
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June 16, 2025 Russia / Россия
Rostelecom's subsidiary RTK-TsOD has launched a data center in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia as well as a new mobile data processing offering for customers. RTK-TsOD is Rostelecom's IT service provider subsidiary, and the Nizhny Novgorod DC is its first data center owned and operated by...
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November 11, 2024 Russia / Россия
Russian hosting provider RUVDS recently announced that it will deliver a server to the South Pole, where it will test the possibility of installing a high-speed communication channel alongside the server. The server will be insulated from the extreme cold through weather-resistant equipment. The...
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October 05, 2024 Russia / Россия
Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Center...
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August 25, 2024 Russia / Россия
Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...
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July 20, 2024 Russia / Россия
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 expanding...
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December 05, 2023 Russia / Россия
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...
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October 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 sale...
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July 17, 2023 Russia / Россия
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...
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May 22, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 is...
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April 19, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 providing...
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April 18, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 first...
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February 16, 2023 Russia / Россия
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...
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February 06, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 of...
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January 05, 2023 Russia / Россия
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 telco...
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June 15, 2022 Russia / Россия
Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is in the...
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May 06, 2022 Russia / Россия
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 shoulder...
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March 01, 2022 Russia / Россия
Liberum Navitas has revealed the first three locations for the 15 data centers it planned to develop in Russia. The Russian IT firm first announced plans for the 15 data centers in October 2021. The company revealed that the data center development would cost 48.6 billion Rubles ($683.3m)....
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