Russian operator MTS has bought GDTs Energy Group for RUB 5.2 billion, including net debt. The group owns the GreenBush facility in Moscow’s Zelenograd suburb, one of the largest data centre projects in Russia.
The GreenBush Data Centre was started in 2018 and at completion, should have a gross capacity of 19 MW to power 2,280 racks in 24 server rooms totaling some 5,220 square metres of floor space. A resident of a tax-privileged special economic zone (SEZ), the centre already serves hundreds of clients following the commissioning of the first of its three planned modules, with the remaining two expected to be brought online in the near future. When fully equipped, GreenBush will rank among the top-5 data centers in Russia by capacity.
MTS plans to use the facility’s additional capacity to market colocation and cloud services to third parties, including more than 25 services under the #CloudMTS brand, as well as to help meet the company’s own compute and storage needs.
The GreenBush facility, which holds a Tier-3 Detailed Design certificate from the international Uptime Institute, will become the twelfth major data center in MTS’s nationwide network, including four in Moscow, two in Nizhny Novgorod, and one each in the Moscow, St Petersburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, and Krasnodar regions.
