Rosenergoatom deploys data center at Novovoronezh NPP

The data processing center of Rosenergoatom, the operator of the NPP, which is part of Rosatom, is one of the largest in Europe. Its total area is 33,800 sq. m. 8,000 stand-up rooms (5 data center buildings) have been designed. Power consumption - 80 MW.

The data center is located about 200 km northwest of Moscow, near the Kalinin NPP (a branch of Rosenergoatom in Udomlya, Tver Region).

The first stage of the data center, including 3 buildings, was presented in September 2018. The site is planned to be used not only for the needs of Rosenergoatom, but also for the provision of commercial services to third-party customers.

The project is being implemented in partnership with Rostelecom.

2024: Rosenergoatom deploys data center at Novovoronezh NPP

Rosenergoatom is launching a project to install modern modular data centers (DPCs) at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. This became known in early June 2024. This solution is aimed at ensuring the continuous operability of the enterprise's IT systems and increasing the level of technological sovereignty of the country.

According to the press service of the Rosenergoatom concern, the Novovoronezh NPP will become a pilot platform for the implementation of this project. By the end of 2025, it is planned to extend this decision to the Balakovo and Smolensk nuclear power plants.

source = Rosenergoatom

The creation of modular data centers for nuclear power plants in Russia is an important step in providing reliable and high-performance infrastructure for strategically important facilities in the country in the future.

The modular data center is an end-to-end solution that allows you to quickly commission your server infrastructure. Among the advantages of this approach are the absence of the need for capital construction, the ability to quickly deploy anywhere and the ease of scaling.

Modular data centers will be manufactured and assembled at the production site of ITK SISTEMA LLC in Obninsk, Kaluga Region. The developed modular data center meets the requirements of fault tolerance of the TIER-3 engineering infrastructure according to the UI classification.

Timur Abramov, General Director of ITK SISTEMA LLC, noted that the project is being implemented with a high level of domestic localization, which contributes to the development of Russian technologies and a decrease in dependence on import solutions. The commissioning of the first modular data center is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025.^[1]

2023: Rosenergoatom will develop data centers in the northern regions of the Russian Federation

Rosenergoatom will develop data centers in the northern regions of the Russian Federation. The company told about this in mid-June 2023.

Rosenergoatom is already an active participant in the digital development program of the Arctic zone. In 2022, the design of a modular data center began at the industrial site of the Kola NPP in the Murmansk region. The new data center with a total capacity of 1 MW is designed for 48 racks (with the possibility of further expansion to 96 racks) and will be put into commercial operation in 2024. The data center will become the basic infrastructure for new high-load digital platforms and services of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic zone, necessary for providing logistics, managing smart city services, supporting tourism and other important areas of development of the region.

DPC Kola NPP will be included in the georegulated network, data centers Rosatom which already includes three existing data processing centers - Kalininsky data center in the Tver region, Xelent data center St. Petersburg in and StoreData data center in. To Moscow Another 5 data centers are at the design and construction stage, including Innopolis data center in Tatarstan (launch scheduled for the end of 2023) and a hyper-data center in Moscow for 3600 TierIV racks (commissioning in the first half of 2024).

Rosenergoatom plans to create an information and telecommunications infrastructure as the necessary foundation for the digital development of the Arctic, including the creation of a network of disaster-resistant data centers in the northern regions, investments in infrastructure projects, issues of effective interdisciplinary and interdepartmental cooperation. The company stressed that the integrated development of the Arctic is one of the strategic priorities and the key to the well-being of the country as a whole.^[2]

2020

Services for miners launched on the basis of Rosatom data center amid threat to cryptocurrencies in Russia

On June 10, 2020, the operator of nuclear power plants Rosenergoatom, which is part of the state corporation Rosatom, presented to potential customers an infrastructure site and a new proposal - container solutions of the data center (CCDC). Read more here.

Preparation for the launch of the facial recognition system at the Kalininsky data center

On April 16, 2020, it became known that the concern Rosenergoatom"" conducted pilot tests and is preparing for commercial launch a video control system biometric for access to internal objects of its reference data center at Kalinin NPP.

The system is built on the basis of a video surveillance network inside the data center hardware rooms, which is connected to an intelligent digital platform. The system fixes the faces of the personnel suitable for the equipment, checks with the current biometric base and gives an alert to the operator if there is an unauthorized person next to the server rack. Recognition occurs in a split second with a proven accuracy of 99%.

Safety is our top priority. With the help of automated facial recognition systems, we will provide an additional level of protection of equipment and data on it from unauthorized access, as well as increase control over the work of personnel, said Sergey Migalin, Deputy General Director - Director for Economics and Finance of Rosenergoatom

The facial recognition system as of April 16, 2020 is used in the zones where the server equipment of the Rosenergoatom Concern is located. Soon this service will be available for commercial customers of the Kalininsky data center.

The service will be developed by the Center for Digital Technologies of the Rosenergoatom Concern together with IVA Cognitive, a Russian company developing solutions based on artificial intelligence.

The IVA CV facial recognition system has already proven itself in the market. Security systems are beginning to actively use biometric identification, and we are pleased to offer a product that brings facility security to a higher level, noted the general director of IVA Cognitive LLC Alexey Tsessarsky

Installation of container data centers

On April 13, 2020, Rosenergoatom announced the appearance of the first container or modular data centers on the territory of the Kalininsky data center site. With this project, the state corporation began to provide new commercial services.

In April, the first container data centers with a total capacity of up to 2 MW were placed at our site, and we predict further growth in demand for this service. Such a proposal is very relevant for the market, since there is already a certain shortage of data center capacities in the regions, "said Sergey Migalin, Deputy General Director - Director for Economics and Finance of Rosenergoatom, whose words are given in a press release.

Modular data centers appeared in the courtyard of the largest data center in Russia

By mid-April 2020, the infrastructure site of the Kalininsky data center (that data center is considered the largest in Russia) has a capacity of 32 MW. Customers can accommodate up to 30 modular data centers with a unit capacity of up to 1 MW. About 500 units of computing equipment focused on blockchain technology are placed in each container.

One of the main advantages of using small modular data centers is the rapid installation and dismantling of equipment.

Kalininsky is a non-single infrastructure platform on the basis of which Rosenergoatom offers commercial customers to place mobile and container data centers. In total, there are six such facilities, they are located in central Russia and have an appropriate level of reliability and safety. The total capacity of all infrastructure sites is measured at about 330 MW, the state corporation said.

They also noted that the Kalininsky data center infrastructure site is part of the Rosenergoatom Reference Data Processing and Storage Center complex and meets high requirements in the field of security and reliability of energy and engineering infrastructure.^[3]

2018: Cloud Service Delivery Begins

In January 2019, the state-owned company Avtodor announced that, together with Rosenergoatom, pilot testing of the use of cloud technologies and services of the new data center for the deployment of the Avtodor geo-information system (GIS) was launched.

The pilot was launched as part of a memorandum of cooperation for the development of the digital economy of the Russian Federation, signed by Rosatom and Avtodor in September 2018.

Rosenergoatom plans to provide commercial services on the basis of the new data center "(photo - rosenergoatom.ru)"

Avtodor expects that the location of the data center near the nuclear power plant, as well as the presence of its own power supply system, should guarantee a high degree of data security and high-quality power supply, which is most important for the uninterrupted operation of the entire Avtodor GIS.

The use of cloud services of the Kalininsky data center will also allow organizing access to the unified information space of the Avtodor GIS from all users of the information system, including branches of a state-owned company, timely updating and storing large amounts of data, combining them on a single platform, - noted in Avtodor.

The company also expects that the use of a single cloud service data center will provide a single digital platform for the infrastructure for testing unmanned transport technologies on the new high-speed highway M-11 "Moscow - St. Petersburg." This infrastructure is being created on the bypass of Vyshny Volochok in the Tver region as part of the development of the Autonet NTI roadmap adopted by the Russian government and as part of the implementation of the instructions of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

2015

Power reduction

On December 15, 2015, Rostelecom's board of directors approved the terms of an agreement with Rosenergoatom over Russia's largest data center to be built in the Tver Region. The approximate income and expenses of the operator in this project are named, and it also became known that the capacity of the site will be half the planned.

According to Vedomosti on December 15, 2015, in accordance with the terms of the preliminary agreement, Rosenergoatom will design and build buildings, communications and the power system of the data center^[4]

Rostelecom will earn 100 billion rubles at the largest data center in Russia

In turn, "Rostelecom" will develop and create the engineering infrastructure of the object. In 2016, the company is going to invest 4.2 billion rubles in the project, in 2017 - 2.8 billion rubles, said the representative of the state operator Valery Kostarev.

The total capacity of the data processing center, built near the Kalinin NPP, will be 4.8 thousand server racks. 4 thousand of them are rented by Rostelecom, and the remaining 800 racks will be used by Rosenergoat for the needs of Rosatom. Earlier it was reported that a total of up to 8-10 thousand racks will be placed in the data center. Kostarev confirmed the decline in indicators, but did not explain the reasons.

The preliminary agreement between Rostelecom and Rosenergoatom is designed for 30 years, during which time the operator will pay about 34.1 billion rubles for renting buildings and structures to organize its data center. In this case, the amount of expenses may change depending on the cost of electricity and other consumed resources.

According to Interfax, citing a source close to the board of directors of Rostelecom, in 30 years Rostelecom may receive about 100 billion rubles of additional income from sales of data center services, which will be built on the infrastructure of Rosenergoatom^[5]

Start of construction

November 23, 2015 Rosenergoatom announced the launch of the construction of a data processing center in Udomla (Tver region). On this data center, which is considered the largest in, Russia their data can be placed and. Google Facebook

The start of construction work of the data center at the site located near the Kalinin NPP was announced by the director of this nuclear power plant Mikhail Kanyshev. According to him, the schedule for the implementation of measures for the construction of the data center has been approved, and, according to him, the general contractor CKD Engineering LLC starts preparing the territory in 2015.

Kalinin NPP, near which the largest data center in Russia is being built

"The General Contractor will carry out a set of construction and installation works, including power supply, water supply, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, roads and other facilities. The commissioning of the first stage of the center is scheduled for March 2017, the second - for March 2018, "Kanyshev said

Earlier it was reported that up to 8 thousand racks will be placed in this commercial data center. According to Mikhail Kanyshev, it is planned to launch up to 10 thousand racks. This allows you to call this data center the largest in the Russian Federation.

In addition, the company should become quite energy-intensive: its power consumption during the implementation of the entire project will be about 80 MW. It is due to the need to provide a reliable source of power supply that the data center is located near the NPP, noted in Rosenergoatom.

By November 2015, the names of customers who will use the capabilities of the data center in the Tver region are unknown. In July 2015, Rosatom (owns Rosenergoatom) offered Google and Facebook to use this platform to transfer personal data of Russian users to Russia, which requires a law that entered into force on September 1, 2015.

According to Rosatom's plans, no more than 10% of the data center capacity in Udomla will be used for Rosenergoatom's needs, and everything else will be offered to commercial customers.^[6]

Project objectives

Construction was estimated at 6.4 billion rubles, this amount excluding additional IT infrastructure. It is planned to gradually place up to 8 thousand racks in the commercial data center.

In the procurement of 150406/0513/655 , the customer - Concern Rosenergoatom OJSC includes the amount - the initial (maximum) price of the contract 6 422 223 030,00 (six billion four hundred twenty-two million two hundred twenty-three thousand thirty) rubles, including VAT. Place of work: branch of Concern Rosenergoatom OJSC Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (Udomlya city, Tver region). Terms of work: from the moment of signing the contract until December 31, 2018, with the right to early execution.

Kalinin NPP, 2013

More than 6 billion rubles will be paid for "a set of works from the preparation of the construction territory and the supply of equipment to the installation and adjustment of equipment to ensure the commissioning of the facility." The construction of the "Reference Center for Data Processing and Storage" of Concern Rosenergoatom OJSC will be carried out at the expense of the customer's own funds, the general contractor agreement provides for the payment of an advance payment: no more than 80% of the cost of equipment and no more than 30% for construction and installation work.

The documentation says that the "Reference data processing and storage center of Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC" is being created for the information support of the Kalinin NPP, Rosenergoatom Concern, Rosatom State Corporation, that is, for its own needs.

The terms of reference were created on the basis of design documentation developed by CKD Engineering LLC, ETS-Proekt LLC, SEM Engineering Company CJSC. ETS-Proyekt has developed the documentation required for the construction of 330/10 kV substations supplying 330 kV cable lines. It is explained that "PS 330/10 kV DPC is designed for uninterrupted power supply to consumers of the reference data processing and storage center of Concern Rosenergoatom OJSC, located at the address: Tver Region, Udomel District, s/p Ryadskoye." Probably, the data center will be located at a distance of at least 2 km from the Kalinin NPP, the draft agreement contains information that five buildings will be built for the data center, two of them are two-story.

LLC CKD Engineering"" will have to perform a set of construction and installation works, supply and installation of equipment, commissioning work on the construction of the object "Reference data processing and storage center" OJSC Concern Rosenergoatom (further) DPC and external power supply networks, DPC including power supply systems, water supply, water disposal, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, communication networks, sewerage systems, roads, parking lots, underground fuel storage and other facilities in accordance with the design documentation, lists of equipment or analogues for the construction of the OJSC Data Processing Center. Concern Rosenergoatom

It is supposed to use the schedules prepared with the help of for monitoring organization. ON Primavera The Contractor shall have a Quality Assurance Program (QAP) to perform the work. The Client requires the Contractor to perform the work continuously and to work in "1, 2 and 3-shift mode."

The construction is divided into five stages, during each of the last three they will add one data center building. The data center buildings will have a reinforced concrete frame with mounted sandwich panels, with non-combustible filler.

Evgeny Romanov, General Director, told in 2013 how this project looked at the level of the idea:

{{quote 'Specifically for KPP, we are now solving an extremely important problem - we are considering an investment project, which will include the construction of several buildings near the station, which will be oriented under the Data Center. This is a data center.

Firstly, we are going to focus the racks here, the servers that will serve all the information of the concern, we will continue to offer that all data centers associated with Rosatom State Corporation are collected here, and thirdly, this will allow us to commercially attract such serious organizations as Google, Yandex, which operate in Russia. There are several components here: the first - we have in the minimum set (i.e. we, plus the commercial structure) - this is 100 MVT, if we, GC and commercial structures - this is already 200 MVT of stable electricity consumption. The obvious thing is that all the electronics that will be concentrated here require heating in the winter, cooling in the summer, and this is a stable consumption of a lot of electricity.

This is good, but for us this is no longer the main thing. We are moving for ourselves not to trade in electricity, but to trade in bits, i.e. with very high added value. And we are already thinking, why don't we even sew this Data Center into the VVER TOI complex as a prerequisite? Then, engaged in the supply of our power units abroad, we begin to deal not only with the supply of electricity to these countries, but also supply media and sources of information.

Let me remind you that in the modern world wars are won not by guns and tanks, but are won in the information space. You own information - you own the world. And in this sense, you will again be on the front line, at the forefront of the attack. And you are no stranger to solving unique problems. You know how to do it. Your team is brilliant. I hope that we will be able to justify this decision. There was already an interim meeting. Given a team to prepare the final presentation, within 2 weeks we go to the management of the Group in order to get a decision that we will start this investment. We have these investments estimated at a couple of billion rubles. "}}

The draft general contract agreement says construction DPC about the 1st level DPC and the 3rd level. There is no information that allows you to find out the planned parameters. The Terms of Reference (Appendix to the General Contractor Agreement) informs about some systems required by the Customer:

"Diesel-dynamic uninterruptible power supply system" (DDUPSU). It should provide power in emergency situations, in case of interruption of external power supply. The DDUPSU system requires uninterrupted and continuous supply of the connected critical load with a clean alternating current. The DDUPSU system shall include all mechanical and electrical devices required for uninterrupted load supply in automatic mode.

• Cold supply and air conditioning. Required microclimate parameters in DPC process rooms will be supported by air conditioning system based on cabinet precision air conditioners with lower air supply. Air distribution will be organized according to the principle of hot and cold corridors, while cold air must be supplied through a perforated false floor to a cold corridor. Air conditioners will have to be installed at the ends of the corridors.

• The specification mentions "100.3 kW precision air conditioner without steam damper with integrated combined balancing valve (motor operated flow controller) ASD1550CW" and "STULZ ASD1550CW precision air conditioner."

• Ventilation. In the room of the installation of dynamic uninterruptible power supplies and DGP, in normal operation, perform a recirculation ventilation system without heating with limiting the minimum temperature of the supplied air + 10 ° С.

• Fire fighting. The fire extinguishing system provides for the use of "Chladon 227ea" (C2F7H), that is, a gas fire extinguishing system will be installed.

• IT equipment. Several computers for deploying various AWS, for placing network equipment - 19 "cabinet floor 42U, floor 22U and wall 12U, optical crosses and media converters (it is planned to use both UTP cat 5e and single-mode fiber for the internal network).

The list mainly includes foreign equipment, including two 48-port Cisco Catalyst WS-C3560-48PS-S switches and two Cisco Catalyst WS-C3750G-12S-E switches, there are also Cisco CISCO881-PCI-K9 and Cisco Catalyst WS-C3560-24PS-Ye. Software for computers, Microsoft Windows 7 Pro, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standart it is planned to deploy on SQL Server Business Intelligence Edition 2014 a separate hardware. For the first stage, Miracel DPC 46U 600x1000d ASP Server Rack cabinets (128 pcs.) Will be installed.

2013: Project Start

By the end of 2013, for the Rosenergoatom concern, which performs the functions of the operating organization (operator) of nuclear power plants, design documentation should be developed for the creation of a reference data processing and storage center . In particular, by this time it is planned to prepare the design project of the facility, the terms of reference for the design of the data center and design estimates for its construction.

The data center is planned to be located in the city of Udomlya on a land plot belonging to the Kalinin NPP. This station generates 70% of the total electricity produced in the Tver region, and supplies power to Tver, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir and Cherepovets.

Earlier in 2013, during a visit to the Kalinin nuclear power plant, Rosenergoatom CEO Evgeny Romanov talked about a planned investment project involving the construction of several buildings near the power plant, which should be oriented under the data center.

Firstly, we are going to focus the racks here, the servers that will serve all the information of the concern, we will continue to offer that all data centers associated with Rosatom State Corporation are collected here, "he said.

As follows from the published documentation on the project, the object to be designed should be a single engineering complex, which includes a common office center with communication system hardware rooms, hardware rooms serving the space outside the data center, and the data center buildings themselves.

The latter includes machine rooms, each of which must provide installation of at least 80 server cabinets, telecommunication rooms serving data center premises, operation center, input rooms, rooms for electrical and mechanical equipment of the data center, warehouses and loading platforms, as well as offices of auxiliary personnel.

To ensure the operation of the data center, power centers with transformer substations, backup power supply and cold supply sources should also be provided. The electrical power of the cabinets, which are planned to be located in the data center, is assumed at 10 kVA for each.

The design of the data center should take into account the compliance of its main parameters with the requirements of the international standard Tier-III, according to the published project documentation.

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