Key Point to build 4 bln ruble data center in Rostov Region

YEKATERINBURG. July 8 (Interfax) - Key Point Group plans to build a data processing center with capacity for up to 1,000 racks in Rostov Region at a cost of about 4 billion rubles, the region's Deputy Governor Igor Sorokin told Interfax.

The agreement on the project was signed at the Innoprom-2024 international industrial exhibition on Monday.

Moscow-based Key Point plans to build the data center for the development of its own and customers' information technology services at industrial and fuel and energy companies, as well as government and private institutions.

"This is a high-tech project. More than 90% domestic equipment will be used in its construction. Investment will total about 4 billion rubles," Sorokin said. The planned capacity of the center is 800 to 1,000 racks.

As part of the implementation of the investment project, there are also plans to set up production in the region of programmable logic controllers for various types of wood and metal processing machine tools at a cost of over 150 million rubles.

Key Point is a regional network of data processing centers, the first of which was one in Vladivostok with capacity for 880 racks, the company's website said. The first phase of a Key Point data center in Novosibirsk opened in February 2024. The company also plans to build data centers with capacity for 100 to 1,200 racks in Yekaterinburg, Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, Makhachkala, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok.