Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in a ceremony of opening the Rosatom State Corporation data center in Innopolis

On 3 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the Director General of the Rosatom State Corporation Aleksey Likhachev took part in launching the first stage of the Innopolis Data Center which will be a service provider for various branches of economy, including the state sector, business and science. 

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Rustam Minnikhanov said: “This is a landmark event for the whole country. We are opening a data center, which is a huge project implemented by the Rosatom Corporation. It is the largest data center in the Volga Federal Districts and what is important is that technological solutions for it were developed taking into consideration the import-replacement strategy and satisfy all modern reliability and safety standards. We are thankful for your trust in Tatarstan and having chosen the Innopolis Special Economic Zone as a site for building the data center.”

In his turn Aleksey Likhachev said: “Development of our own digital solutions and construction of such large IT facilities as data centers, help the state corporation to solve important state and branch tasks and strengthen positions of the Rosatom as a global technological leader. We attach great attention to ensuring the operation of critical information infrastructure, which needs a reliable basis, namely the geologically distributed and fault resistance network of data centers. The opening of the new data center is the next and very important step to reaching the aim set forth by the Russian President in achievement of technological sovereignty of our country.”

The first stage of the data center will house 1000 rack units and after launching the second stage their number will double and make the total capacity of the center 16 Mwatt.

In the end of the ceremony Rustam Minnikhanov and Aleksey Likhachev signed an agreement on cooperation between Tatarstan and the Rosatom.