22.06.2017 

Rosenergoatom will put the largest Russian Data Centre into operation in the first half of 2018

Rosenergoatom Concern is planning to put into operation a new Data Processing Centre (DPC) being constructed in partnership with Rostelekom PJSC in Tver Oblast in 2018. This was reported by the Deputy Director General, Economy and Finance Director of Rosenergoatom Sergey Migalin during the 9th International Forum Atomexpo-2017 that was taking place on 19-21 June in Moscow.

During the Forum at its stand the Concern first unveiled the project on construction of the biggest in Russia, as well as one of the biggest in Europe 80-megaWatt Data Centre.

The construction site of a new Concern’s Mendeleev DPC is situated about 200 km north-west from Moscow in the town of Udomlya, near Kalinin NPP (the Concern’s subsidiary). At the present moment it is one of the key tasks of the Concern in order to expend product lines and approach new markets.

Explaining the project’s construction site choice Sergey Migalin noted that “The NPP area is the territory of advanced safety. In addition, the power supply aspect is very significant; and Kalinin NPP is continuous and powerful source on energy supply.”
The DPC will provide services of co-location of server hardware. There will be 4,800 rack spaces, and 48 MW in the first stage with the expanse to 80 MW and 8,000 unified rack spaces with 7 kW each.

For now the rack spaces will be located in three buildings with total area of 33.8 thousand sq. m. “We are going to put the first two buildings into operation this August. And in October it is planned to complete the construction of all three DPC buildings and step-by-step equip them with rack spaces”, Sergey Aleksandrovich noted.

According to him, about 6 billion rubles were invested in the project by Rosenergoatom, and it is planned that this payment will be recovered in approximately 10-15 years. During 2018 and later the Concern plans to gradually transfer all of its IT-systems – and first of all the enterprise resource planning systems of all the nuclear power plants, operation and maintenance support system, consolidation system of operational parameters of power units, and file management system – into new DPC.

In its turn Pavel Kaplunov, the Director General of Rostelekom – DPC noted, “All around the world the most successful business models of companies in the DPC market are the trend on enlargement and construction of mega-DPCs, united in distributed network connected by channels of high capacity. This model provides the maximum reliability, information safety, fail safety, attractive service cost and high standards of service agreements are provided, and in the end of the day that is the most attractive model for customers. In fact, such a model was approved as strategic one for Rostelekom’s DPC development. Our strategy is intended to build an entire ecosystem – DPCs, main high capacity network infrastructure, internet exchange points, and our own cloud platform independent from import.

According to P. Kaplunov, the DPC in Udomlya can be confidently called mega-DPC. “This is not only the biggest project Russia, but also one of the biggest in Europe. The DPC in Udomlya will become the supporting DPC in disaster-proof distributed network that is being constructed by Rostelekom. To 2020 we are planning to expand the location area geography by commissioning new capacities in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Khabarovsk. The creation of such a network will significantly contribute into the required technological infrastructure of digital economy development in Russia.”

The Rosenergoaton Concern (the power division of the Rosatom State Corporation) includes 10 Russian nuclear power stations bearing the status of the Concern’s affiliate companies, along with the vendors catering for the needs of the generation company. All in all, the 10 nuclear power stations operate 35 power blocks* (*excluding the Novovoronezh NPP’s 6th power block being at the pilot production stage): 18 of them operate VVER reactors (12 VVER-1000 power blocks and 5 VVER-440 power blocks of different modifications); 15 of them with channel reactors (11 power blocks with RMBK-1000 reactors, four power blocks with EGP-6 reactors); and 2 power blocks with fast neutron sodium cooling reactors (BN-600 and BN-800).

At the moment, the Rosenergoatom NPPs account for 18.3% of the whole electricity output in the country.


Information and Public Relations Administration Rosenergoatom Concern JSC.


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