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2024: Establishing a Company

In early March 2024, it became known that a subsidiary of the IT integrator LANIT"" created a company called "Astar Date." She will build a new turnkey data center.

As part of Astar Data LLC, the main share - 51% - belongs to Lanit Data Center LLC. The remaining 49% is owned by AIK LLC. In turn, the Lanit Data Center structure created at the end of December 2023 belongs to Lanit Holding LLC, 99% of which belongs to Philip Gens, President of Lanit and heir to the founder of the group of companies Georgy Gens.

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At the same time, the founder of Aikom is Alexey Mazin, CEO of Riverstretch Trading & Investments. The latter is the controlling shareholder of O1 Properties, the largest owner of Class A offices in Moscow.

The main type of work "Astar dates" is indicated "data processing activities, provision of information placement services and related activities - 63.11." The company also works in 22 more areas. The authorized capital is 10 million. rubles The general director of Astar Dates is Ilya Ostapolets, who was previously the technical director of data centers Russia Avantage, one of the five largest data centers in Lytkarin near Moscow. In 2018 MTS , it bought the Avantage platform for 2,240 racks from private investors for almost 9 billion rubles.

Nikita Tsaplin, general director of the hosting provider RUVDS, believes that Astar Date has been created for a specific project for the construction of a data center. The demand for data center services in Russia is growing due to the departure of foreign cloud providers. The capacity of domestic data centers in 2023 increased by 21% - to 70,300 racks. Almost a third of the market is occupied by Rostelecom DPC, which operates 21,408 racks. The top three also includes IXcellerate and DataPro - more than 6,000 racks each. In addition, 3data, Selectel, MTS, Rosenergoatom and Oxygen are notable market players.^[1]

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