Shortage of corporate data center capacity in Russia seen growing amid surging demand - Key Point Group founder

VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 5 (Interfax) - Operators of corporate data processing centers (DC) are not managing to building enough infrastructure to keep up with demand, so there is a persistent shortage of capacity on the market, the founder of Key Point Group and CEO of Open Technologies Engineering, Yevgeny Virtser said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Friday.

"There has been a persistent shortage of this infrastructure in the country since 2017. It's growing. What we're doing, what our respected colleagues, and Rostelecom and MTS are doing is not enough. Demand for corporate DCs has grown very fast in the past year and operators of commercial DCs are not building this infrastructure fast enough. This demand will increase with the growth in the amount of data," Virtser said.

Key Point, which operates a regional network of DCs, announced in June 2022 that it would build 35 DCs in Russia in six years. The first DC in the company's network was a center in Vladivostok with 880 racks that opened on February 1, 2023. The group opened the first phase of a DC with capacity for 880 racks at an industrial and logistics park outside of Novosibirsk in April 2024.