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MOSCOW (Reuters) - IXcellerate plans to invest $500 million to construct two new data centres in Moscow, aiming to cover a shortage of server capacity in Russia, the Kommersant daily reported on Tuesday.
The London-headquartered data centre operator will launch a network of such centres at two sites, including at a former brewery in southern Moscow, with a total capacity of more than 20,000 racks, Kommersant reported, adding that Russia’s entire capacity stood at 50,000 racks in 2020.
Server racks house the essential hardware in a data centre, from computer servers to patch panels.
One of the new data centres would be the largest in Europe, Kommersant quoted IXcellerate Managing Director Konstantin Borman as saying.
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