Arctic Data Centers

2024: Arktika data center to be built at Kola NPP for 1.4 billion rubles

In the Murmansk region, the Arktika data processing center (DPC) will be built on the territory of the Kola NPP. This became known in mid-August 2024 from the presentation of the director of the station Vasily Omelchuk. It is planned that the total investment in the project will amount to ₽1,4 billion. Read more here.

2023: The first commercial data center for 1.1 billion rubles will be launched in the Murmansk region

In mid-July 2023, the project of the first commercial data center in the Murmansk region was announced. It is assumed that over 1.1 billion rubles will be spent on the construction of the facility and equipping it with equipment. Read more here.

2022: Rostelecom commissioned the first data center in the Arctic

At the end of October 2022, Rostelecom"" put into operation the first commercial data center in. According To the Arctic to the director of the macro-regional branch of "Northwest" the company, the entire video Alexander Loginov analytics system is already stored in the data center.

The first northern data center in the Arctic was built as soon as possible... The first thing we started with is everything related to security - video surveillance and video analytics, which allow us to solve real crimes in the Murmansk region, - said the Governor of the Murmansk  Region Andrei Chibis at the opening of the data center.

Rostelecom introduced the first commercial data center in the Arctic in Murmansk

Both regional authorities and business representatives will become clients of the Arctic data center. The first in the new data center were the servers that receive data from cameras for photo and video recording of traffic violations.

Alexandra Nikipelova, the director of digital development of the region, noted that video cameras have already been placed in schools and intercoms of access doors, which will be connected to the facial recognition system for transferring data to the data center and subsequent analysis of records by law enforcement agencies. According to her, by the end of 2022, the number of such cameras in the region will be about four thousand.

The data center with a capacity of 20 racks and a capacity of 160 kW was located on the basis of the production premises of the former automatic automatic automatic telephone exchange in the Pervomaisky district in Murmansk. Uninterrupted power supply is provided with the ability to replace power modules without interrupting power supply, in case of power outage, a diesel generator set is equipped. The data center is built with the ability to scale the workspace twice, three times or four times within one or two months.

Rostelecom is confident that the emergence of a data center increases the investment attractiveness of the region, since the business has a request for data storage.^[1]

2020

A second data center for 900 million rubles will be created at the Rusal plant in the Arctic zone

As it became known at the end of November 2020, a second data center will be created at the Rusal plant in Nadvoitsy, Segezhsky district. The project will be implemented by the company "Arctic Data Center - 2," which has applied for the status of a resident of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and plans to invest about 895 million rubles in the creation of a data center. Read more here.

The Federation Council proposed to create data centers in the Arctic

As it became known on November 10, 2020, the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council appealed to the government with a proposal to create a network of data centers "mainly on Russian software and hardware complexes" in the Arctic. It is assumed that business will be engaged in their creation and development, but with the support of the state.

The implementation of this project will allow the Arctic to play a global role in the field of digital technologies and will provide an influx of qualified specialists here, "said Andrei Turchak, vice speaker of the Federation Council, secretary of the United Russia General Council, during a meeting of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council.

Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko instructed to create a network of data centers in the Arctic, but there are problems

He proposed to develop a "roadmap" and standards for the creation of such a network. The Deputy Prime Minister RUSSIAN FEDERATION Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed Ministry of Digital Development to consider this issue.

As a source in the upper house of parliament told TASS, in order for the project for the development of data centers in the Arctic to be attractive for IT-Business, the government will be recommended to develop a special package of benefits for IT companies that are residents of the special economic zone of the Arctic.

According to the agency's interlocutor, low temperatures in the Arctic can seriously reduce cooling costs in data centers.

At the same time, according to Selectel Infrastructure Director Alexei Eremenko, the cost of building a data center in the Arctic "will definitely be higher than the construction of a data center in Moscow or St. Petersburg," due to the more complex logistics of supplying building materials and heavy equipment, as well as higher wages for workers. In addition, some customers may refuse to use such centers due to signal delays.

Technical Director of IXellerate Sergey Vyshemirsky also drew attention to the fact that in the Russian Arctic "there is no guaranteed electricity, infrastructure, communication channels, qualified personnel, normal housing."^[2]

Creation of a network of data centers in the north of Karelia

At the end of October 2020 Russia Vladimir Putin , the President approved the Development Strategy of the Russian Arctic zone Federation, one of the components of which was the creation of a network in the north of Karelia. data centers

The main directions for the implementation of this strategy in certain municipalities of the Republic of Karelia are the modernization of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the creation of cascades of small hydroelectric power plants, subject to confirmation of the promising demand for electricity and their economic efficiency, the creation of a network of data processing and storage centers based on domestic high-speed ultra-strong solutions, - the document says, published on the official portal of legal information.

Vladimir Putin approved the creation of a network of data centers in the north of Karelia

The first DPC in Karelia should begin work in November 2020. The investor of the project, KU Data Center, invested 520 million rubles of its own funds in it and created 120 new jobs that were occupied by local residents. The data center will be located in the buildings of the former aluminum plant "" and RUSAL other structures with an area of ​ ​ 86 thousand square meters in Nadvoitsy, Segezha district. The total capacity of the enterprise will be 64.5 megawatts (MW).

The volume of investments for the next three years will amount to about 4 billion rubles. This is only in infrastructure. Excluding the cost of equipment, "explained in the company" KJ Date Center. "

Earlier it was reported that Petrozavodsk State University and GS Nanotech are going to build a distributed network of data centers with a central hub and DSS production plant in the north of Karelia by 2025. Read more here.

The implementation of projects should entail the development of a number of related industries in such industries as metallurgy, chemical industry and manufacturing. It is also assumed that data centers will contribute to the creation of a market for fast cloud services, IT companies and the development of the "digital Arctic."^[3]

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