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Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow

Russian IT company Nubes has announced that it is developing a Tier III standard data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q4 2022. The data center will be located in the Biryulyovo Vostochnoye district of Moscow. It is also designed to accommodate 282 r...

July 13, 2022

Moscow / Москва́

Selectel To Develop a 20MW Facility in Moscow, Russia

Selectel will be developing a data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center firm will span 48,400 square feet (4,500 square meters) while also offering 20MW in capacity. The data center will be called Yurlovsky, and it will have the capacity to house up to 2,000 racks. The data center is s...

May 20, 2022

Moscow / Москва́

Russia's MTS Holds Off Selling its Tower Asset Due To War

Russia’s MTS announced in November 2021 that it is mulling over the sale of its tower assets. Besides, there was a belief that it was close to reaching an agreement at the beginning of the year. However, it has postponed the sale plans indefinitely. The postponement was caused by potential ...

May 19, 2022

MTS Group

MTS Announces Data Center Subsidiary, Plans 15 New Facilities

MTS has announced that it is setting up a new data center unit (subsidiary). The Russian telco also revealed that it would develop four new facilities over the next 24 months. It also looks to develop up to 15 data centers across Russia under the new subsidiary. The new subsidiary will be c...

May 05, 2022

MTS Group

KDDI and Telehouse discuss sustainability and targets

KDDI and its data center subsidiary Telehouse recently made their latest sustainability announcements and set a number of target dates to achieve carbon neutrality. Alongside this, they published the details of number of initiatives that will help them to achieve their green goals. Currently, ...

April 12, 2022

Telehouse

Linxdatacenter to Develop a 50MW Data Center in Moscow

Linxdatacenter has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Moscow, Russia. The company revealed that it bought a 280,000 square feet (26,000 square meters) site at Serebrvakova 8 in Moscow. The Russian firm noted that the data center would have a capacity of 50MW and accommodate...

February 18, 2022

Linxdatacenter

Rostelecom expands its facility in Russia

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...

February 15, 2022

Rostelecom

Russia's MTS and South Korea's KT Corp Are Partnering Up

South Korea’s KT Corp and Russia’s MTS have announced that they formed a partnership to build data centers in Russia. The companies said they signed a strategic agreement to develop new business directions, including joint AI-based solutions, data centers, and media content projects. The te...

February 10, 2022

MTS Group

IXcellerate Secures $190m In Funding

IXcellerate announced this week that it has completed a new round of financing after raising $190 from existing and new investors. Some of the new investors include SberInvest, Mubadala Investment Company, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The company says the funds will be used to expan...

January 26, 2022

IXcellerate

Rostelecom to expand one of its data centers in Moscow

Rostelecom has announced that it is expanding one of its facilities in Moscow. Its M9 data center on Moscow's Butlerova Street will span 466 sq m (5,000 sq ft), with a capacity of 840kW and offer standard racks of 5.5 kW.The facility is built to Tier III standard and will reportedly accommoda...

January 24, 2022

Rostelecom

Rostelecom to develop 55MW data center campus in Moscow

Rostelecom has announced its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Moscow, Russia. The company revealed that its subsidiary Rostelecom DPC acquired a facility at Nikopolskaya street. Rostelecom plans to develop four data center buildings at the site. The buildings will cover a to...

November 23, 2021

Rostelecom Biryulevo

Rostelecom to open the first Arctic data center in Russia

Rostelecom has plans to develop a data center in the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia. The Murmansk region Government revealed that the Russian telco would open a new facility on the Kola Peninsula in 2022. Rostelecom also said it would be starting work on the new facility at the end of this year...

October 20, 2021

Rostelecom

Rostelecom opens new data center in Moscow, Russia

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in Moscow, Russia. The latest data center was opened under its Rostelecom-DPC unit. The new NORD-6 facility is in the Rostelecom-DPC campus in Korovinskoe highway 37. It has a capacity of 5MW and two data rooms that will house 207 rac...

October 07, 2021

NORD-6

Rostelecom signs data center service deals with Russian Post and mining company Petropavlovsk

Russian telco Rostelecom has announced the signing of a new data center deal with Russian gold mining company Petropavlovsk and Russian Post. Rostelecom signed a five-year contract worth RUB13.5 billion ($184.3 million) with Russian Post to provide IT services. The agreement will see Rostel...

September 08, 2021

Rostelecom

Data center merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see wh...

August 16, 2021

QTS Data Centers

MTS acquires GreenBush data center in Moscow

Russian telco MTS has acquired Moscow based data center, GreenBush. MTS acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, which owns the GreenBush data center, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million). The GreenBush data center was first launched in 2018, and it was Tier III certified. At full build out, it will...

July 06, 2021

MTS Greenbush

Rostelecom merges 2 data center units

Rostelecom is merging its two data center business units, Rostelecom-DPC and DataLine, into one. It will be forming a new Company called DPC technology Center. The Company said the merger would see the new Company combine its experience in managing data centers.In a statement issued by the Co...

June 23, 2021

Rostelecom

Rostelecom opens data center in St. Petersburg, Russia

Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Besides, the new data center is a 4,000 square meter facility, and Rostelecom built it to Tier III standards. It has a power capacity of 7.4MW and a total capacity of 800 racks. In addition, Rostelecom said...

June 01, 2021

Rostelecom

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions...

April 25, 2019

Rackspace

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s Fanat...

April 02, 2018

Rackspace

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