Russia's Ministry of Digital Development to work out support measures for data-centre construction by year-end, with priority for regions with surplus electricity
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Russian authorities want to build more data centres closer to sources of energy.
Russia's Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadayev told a meeting of the State Duma's IT committee that the ministry will work out measures to support the construction of data centres by the end of the year, including preferential lending mechanisms (according to Kommersant's description). According to him, construction needs to be stimulated across the country, in particular in the Urals and Eastern Siberia, where there is a surplus of electricity; the Moscow agglomeration, he said, holds more than 80% of resources, so the priority is regions with surplus energy. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 42 centres are at different stages, from the search for financing to completion of construction, and they are planned to be placed under personal supervision.
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