MTS says buys one of Russia’s top data centers for 5.2 bln rbl

MOSCOW, Jul 6 (PRIME) -- Mobile operator MTS has acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, the owner of the GreenBush facility in the Moscow district of Zelenograd, one of Russia’s largest data center projects, for 5.2 billion rubles, including net debt, MTS said late on Monday in a statement.

 “According to industry experts, the Russian data center market is expected to grow more than 20% annually over the next several years. When fully equipped, GreenBush will rank among the top-5 data centers in Russia by capacity, providing us significant headroom to grow in the Moscow metro area, which today accounts for some 80% of the Russian commercial data center market,” Vice President for Infrastructure Development Igor Yegorov said.

MTS plans to use the facility’s additional capacity to market colocation and cloud solutions 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.

GreenBush was first launched in 2018 and when fully completed is to have a gross capacity of 19 MW to power 2,280 racks in 24 server rooms totaling some 5,220 square meters of floor space.

(73.3540 rubles – U.S. $1)

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