
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development plans to provide personal support to projects for the construction of data processing centers (DPCs), mainly outside Moscow, to resolve issues with land, energy and financing.
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The Ministry of Digital Development is working on measures to support the construction of data centers in Russian regions by the end of the year.
The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia will take under personal support projects for the construction of data processing centers (DPCs), said the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev.
Earlier on Monday, the minister announced that the department would work out measures to support the construction of data centers in Russian regions by the end of the year.
“But here is our task: to take all these projects under separate personal support - in order to help resolve issues with land, with energy, with obtaining the necessary approvals and, including, if necessary, additional preferential financing, using existing mechanisms,” he said at a joint meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and the Duma Committee on Digital Development and Artificial Intelligence.
The minister added that most of the construction projects will be located outside of Moscow. In his opinion, there will be a strong demand for additional data centers in the near future.
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