At the plant of Rusal in the Arctic zone will create the second data center for 900 million rubles

As it became known at the end of November, 2020, at the plant of Rusal in Nadvoitsakh of the Segezha district will create the second data center. The Data Center the Arctic — 2 company which submitted the application for obtaining status of the resident of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation will be engaged in project implementation and is going to invest about 895 million rubles in creation of DPC.

The Minister of Economic Development of the republic Oleg Yermolaev told about this project of TASS. At the same time he did not report parameters of future data processing center.

The first data center in the territory of the plant of Rusal in the Arctic zone — KYu DTs — by the end of November, 2020 receives state support as the resident of the territory of the advancing social and economic development (TASED) of Nadvoitsa therefore it, according to the existing rules, cannot apply for the Arctic privileges. According to Oleg Yermolaev, Arctic-2 and KYu DTs are different, but "friendly" projects.

At the plant of Rusal in the Arctic zone the second data center will appear

We have not loaded fiber optic lines which allow us to develop this direction. Our northern territory is rather approximate to the European part of Europe. One more our advantage: we - the South of the Arctic. For Karelia it will become one of the areas of work. I will not anticipate, but is several entrepreneurs, initiators of implementation of investment projects with whom we now too work on creation of data centers — the Minister of Economic Development of the region emphasized.

The director of Association of the enterprises of computer and information technologies (APKIT) and also council of Chamber of Commerce and Industry on development of digital economy Nikolay Komlev specified that construction of DPCs in a cold zone in addition to need of cooling of the equipment solves one more problem — it is possible to warm with excesses of heat residential and working premises. According to its information, council for development of digital economy is also going to recommend to resolve an issue with wire line access in the Internet and mobile communication in the region that will allow to create "digital capacities".^[1]

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