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Rostelecom deputy chairman proposes building backup "doomsday data centers" in Russia

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In Russia, separate reserve data centers are being discussed in case the main ones fail.

According to Vedomosti (RBC quotes the same words; its text is paywalled), at the RBC Tech forum a Rostelecom deputy head, Valery Ermakov, spoke of a need for backup sites to restore digital services quickly in emergencies, calling them "doomsday data centers". In his words, the nature of threats has changed (drones, digital-platform failures), and there is a need to respond faster rather than focus only on economic efficiency. The proposal came against the backdrop of recent reports of damage to Yandex and Sberbank data centers.

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History

Damage and strikes on data centers in Russia and Ukraine

22 events
  1. Yandex: three supercomputers were not damaged in attacks on its data centers and are moving to new sites
  2. Russia's Ministry of Digital Development approves requirements for protecting data centers from drones: strategic ones are proposed to be placed underground
  3. Yandex restores clients' access to 90.47% of Yandex Cloud data after attacks on data centers; a new site started operating on October 23
  4. Ukrainian data centre GigaCenter in Dnipropetrovsk reports building damage and outages for clients
  5. Yandex restores the main functions of Yandex 360 and Direct after damage to data centers and promises a major update of Alice AI
  6. Operator Datagroup reports its Kyiv data center was completely destroyed in a strike on October 19; Russia's Defense Ministry named it as a target
  7. VK reports a drone attack on its data centre in the Leningrad region
  8. Yandex denies reports that insurance on its data centers had not been renewed by the time of the attacks
  9. Data centers have become targets of strikes in several conflicts; Putin said Russia has "started to respond", including against data centers
  10. Cloudflare: after the outage of Yandex networks, bots' share of global traffic did not change, and some automated requests moved to other providers
  11. Rostelecom deputy chairman proposes building backup "doomsday data centers" in RussiaOpen now
  12. Yandex restores most functions of the Alice AI chat and smart devices; calls on Stations are still unavailable
  13. Sberbank reports drone attack on its data center in Balakovo; it says the bank's systems are working normally
  14. Yandex Pay partially restores transfers and payments after data centre damage; Peskov: the matter is being discussed in the government
  15. Automated traffic from Yandex's network fell 94%, Cloudflare data show; Zelensky links this to social media bots, experts do not read the data that way
  16. Shadaev: Russia's Ministry of Digital Development and Defense Ministry are working on protecting data centers
  17. Yandex restricts some Yandex 360 functions after drone strikes on three data centers
  18. Data centers are becoming targets in conflicts: Russia's Defense Ministry reports a strike on a data center in Odesa, a senior Iranian official threatens SI facilities in the region
  19. Yandex data center in Vladimir shut down after a drone attack — the company's third in a week
  20. Alice AI and Stations run with interruptions after damage to Yandex's two data centres
  21. Drones damage a second Yandex data centre in two days — several modules at Kaluga knocked out
  22. Yandex data center in Sasovo shut down after fire; company cannot confirm it can be restored
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