ER-Telecom subsidiary starts building Europe's biggest data center in Perm

PERM. Aug 20 (Interfax) - The ER-Telecom Holding's Lartech Group has started to build the 50 MW ERmak data center, which will be Europe's biggest, in Perm, Group CEO Dmitry Poltorak said at the Cities of the Future forum in Perm on Thursday.

"The first major project is the ERmak data center. Construction is already underway in Perm, with capacity of 50 MW, and it will include dedicated racks for high-load AI computing," Poltorak said.

The company continues to develop its smart bus stops. "In Perm alone, we already have 202 digital bus stops, and by the end of the year, there will be 240," he said.

The company is also developing a smart intercom system - 80,000 such devices have been installed across the country, 1,500 of them in Perm, and there are plans to double this number.

ER-Telecom Holding plans to build two large data centers, in Perm and Moscow, each with capacity of 50 MW, by 2030, Andrei Kuzyayev, president of ER-Telecom Holding, said during the Perm Economic Congress in February. The company also plans to create a network of 20 regional data centers, each with a capacity of 3 MW to 10 MW. Total planned investment in the projects is 100 billion rubles.

The Perm datacenter will be the biggest in Europe, with more than 8,300 racks and up to 10 modular buildings. Investment in the Perm center will by 35 billion rubles.

The Lartech Group offers the full range of services for the design, development and manufacture of innovative products and platforms for various sectors, including energy, housing and utilities and industry.

ER-Telecom, one of Russia's biggest connectivity firms, provides services including broadband Internet, telephony, digital TV, Wi-Fi, VPN, LoRaWAN, video surveillance and integrated IoT solutions.