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Rostelecom to Build Data Center for PhosAgro

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 d...

October 02, 2025

Russia / Россия

Yandex to Launch Availability Zone at Data Center in Vladimir, Russia

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...

September 26, 2025

Russia / Россия

Rostelecom Subsidiary Launches Facility in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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...

June 16, 2025

Russia / Россия

RUVDS to deliver server to South Pole

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. ...

November 11, 2024

Russia / Россия

Russia to invest in home-grown chip making equipment

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 Cente...

October 05, 2024

Russia / Россия

Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium

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...

August 25, 2024

Russia / Россия

Yandex remained as Nebius Group

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...

July 20, 2024

Russia / Россия

Russian telco Tattelcom unveils new data center in Kazan

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...

December 05, 2023

Russia / Россия

Veon completes sale of Russian Subsidiary

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...

October 16, 2023

Russia / Россия

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

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...

July 17, 2023

Russia / Россия

Wildberries deploys new data center in Russia

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 ...

May 22, 2023

Russia / Россия

Key Point and Rostelecom Partner to Build New Data Center on Sakhalin Island

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...

April 19, 2023

Russia / Россия

Key Point Technologies Begins Construction on Siberia's Largest Data Center in Novosibirsk, Russia

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...

April 18, 2023

Russia / Россия

Russian Federation to launch a cryptocurrency mining plant worth $12.3 million

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...

February 16, 2023

Russia / Россия

Key Point opens data center in eastern Siberia

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...

February 06, 2023

Russia / Россия

Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

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...

January 05, 2023

Russia / Россия

Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia

Russian company Yandex has announced plans to separate its cloud computing and other tech businesses from Russia, moving them out of the Eastern Europe country. Yandex’s ties with Russia have caused economic problems for it since the war in Ukraine. Earlier in the summer, Yandex sold off it...

December 01, 2022

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Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility

Yandex has announced that it is expanding in western Russia, with the addition of a new 63MW facility in the Grabtsevo industrial park in Kaluga, around 100 miles south of Moscow. According to reports, the data center is expected to span 130,000 square meters and house more than 3,800 server ...

September 27, 2022

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3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

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 ...

June 15, 2022

Russia / Россия

Faced with EU sanctions Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns

It has been announced that Arkady Volozh, co-founder Yandex, the largest Russian technology firm, has resigned as CEO of the company after being added to the EU's list of individuals sanctioned over the war in Ukraine. Volozh was named last week in the EU's sixth round of sanctions. Moreover, ...

June 06, 2022

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