Data Center Moscow-2

2024: Completion of construction

To Moscow The construction of one of the largest in has been completed. Russia data centers This was announced on February 20, 2024 by the press service of the capital's Urban Planning Policy and Construction Complex.

7-storey data center with an area of ​ ​ 21 thousand square meters. m and a capacity of more than 35 MW is located on the territory of the former industrial zone "Red Builder" in the area of ​ ​ Yuzhnoye Chertanovo on the street. Dorozhnaya, d. 9, p. 1. The data center was named "Moscow-2." It has an administrative area within it, as well as four technical rooms, each using 910 IT racks. Rooms with staff offices and meeting rooms are located in the administrative zone.

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According to the capital's mayor's office, an autonomous power supply system has become a feature of the project, guaranteeing uninterrupted operation of the equipment. To achieve this goal, engineers used 16 diesel generator sets - each with a power of over 2500 kW. After the facility is put into operation, the management of the data center will be transferred to Rosatom.

As the chairman of Mosgosstroynadzor Anton Slobodchikov noted, Moscow-2 became the first commercial data center in Russia certified according to Tier IV Constructed Facility - the highest level of the international industry standard of reliability and fault tolerance.

The developer of the data center is M-Capital Management Company LLC, the general contractor and technical customer are the structures of the MonArch group of companies. The design and part of the construction and installation work was carried out by the company "Free Technologies Engineering."

Evgeny Virzer, General Director of Free Technologies Engineering, noted that the company was faced with a difficult task - to build an object of this level in the current difficult conditions and at the same time comply with all the customer's requirements and meet the deadlines. Many technical solutions had to be promptly revised already in the process of implementation, he said.^[1]

2023: Closing the Data Center Acquisition

The concern Rosenergoatom (part of the electric power division of Rosatom GC ""), represented by the company Atomdata Center " , completed the acquisition of the largest data processing center in Moscow (), DPC significantly expanding the capacity of its geodistributed and disaster-tolerant network. TAdviser was informed about this on August 11, 2023. Atomdata

The transaction amount amounted to 23.8 billion rubles. The name of the data center seller is not disclosed.

The data center is located in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow on the territory of more than 1 hectare, has a design capacity of 3,640 racks and an input capacity of over 35 MW. The total area of ​ ​ the data center building is more than 20 thousand square meters.

The data center under construction, called Moscow-2, is scheduled for commissioning in the 2nd quarter of 2024.

The expansion of the physical infrastructure of the data center network will provide Atomdat, a commercial operator of data center services and cloud solutions developing on the network infrastructure of data centers of the Rosenergoatom concern, with significant potential for business growth. In addition to colocation, Atomdata provides cloud services and related services.

The data center market in Russia, especially in the capital region, is facing a shortage in new areas, they say in Atomdat

In early July 2023, Rosenergoatom announced the start of construction of a new data center in Moscow. At that time, the company did not specify that it was about buying an object. The general director of Atomdata Center, Sergei Nemchenkov, at that time reported that the Moscow-2 data center would become the largest data center in Russia and the first facility in the Rosatom network with such a high level of reliability.

The Moscow-2 data center infrastructure meets the TIER IV reliability level. The data center under construction has already passed the Uptime Institute Design design documentation certification for compliance with this level. In the future, as the facility is ready, comprehensive certification is provided - the built data center (Facility reliability) and operational stability (Operation). This level, which ensures fault tolerance of the data center engineering infrastructure, is increasingly in demand by a significant number of customers.

Certification for the highest level of TIER IV reliability will allow for service and maintenance of equipment without affecting the critical IT infrastructure of the data center, Atomdat expects.

There are no difficulties in obtaining equipment when creating a data center against the background of the fact that last year many foreign vendors left the Russian market. Atomdat told TAdviser that there are many domestic vendors (equipment manufacturers) on the market, and their solutions are actively used by industry participants.

The data center market in Russia, especially in the capital region, is facing a shortage in new areas, primarily for the largest customers who require significant capacity on one site. The decision to launch a new facility in Moscow is a logical step in the strategy of expanding our data center network, the company says.

And the tense situation with UAVs, observed recently in the Moscow region, does not affect the demand for data centers in Moscow, according to Atomdat:

The growth rate of demand for data center services in the regions may exceed the capital, primarily due to the insufficient supply of high-quality infrastructure, but not because of the mentioned threats, the company explained to TAdviser.

The company says that the fixed deadlines for putting the data center into commercial operation provide it with the ability to plan in advance the processes of expanding or completely migrating IT infrastructure to a new site.

It is important that already now, when booking resources in the new data center at the construction stage, we can take into account the individual design wishes of customers, which are technologically more difficult to implement after launching the site into commercial operation - said Sergey Lysenko, general director of Atomdat.

The new data center will be included in the geodistributed network of data centers and infrastructure sites of Rosatom. By the beginning of July 2023, Atomdata Center manages three operating data processing centers: Kalininsky data center in the Tver region, Xelent data center in St. Petersburg and StoreData data center in Moscow.

In addition, five more data centers are at the design and construction stage, including the Innopolis data center in Tatarstan, the launch of which is scheduled for the end of 2023. As for the Moscow-2 data center, its commissioning is scheduled for the first quarter of 2024.