Google transfers the servers to the Russian data centers

The Google company began to install the servers in the territory of Russia for fulfillment of requirements of the law on personal data obliging to store the Internet companies personal data of the Russian users within the country. In particular, the IT giant places the infrastructure in data centers of Rostelecom, RBC^[1] reports ^[2].

That Google already transfers the servers to Russia, the representative of Rostelecom at a meeting in the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications said, to the devoted law on personal data, report edition sources. "The Google company [now] is our client. We have a regime parastatal enterprise" — he told.

The official representative of Rostelecom Andrey Polyakov told RBC that the company can open data on clients only from their consent. The representative of Google Anurova Svetlana reported to the edition that the company does not comment on a subject of a personal data storage.

Other sources of RBC reported that Google rents spaces for own servers since October, 2014 — then the company set 40 racks in data center TrustInfo, having occupied a half of the hall. Now under infrastructure of IT giant the whole hall is allocated, they add.

According to RBC, lease of one place for a rack costs approximately $2 thousand a month (about 108 thousand rubles at the rate of the Central Bank for April 9). Respectively, 80 spaces for racks cost Google approximately 8.6 million rubles monthly.

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