Russian telecoms firm MTS has acquired the GreenBush data center in Moscow.
The company has acquired 100 percent of GDTs Energy Group LLC, which owns the GreenBush facility in the city’s Zelenograd suburb, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million).
First launched in 2018, the Tier III-certified GreenBush data center will have 19MW of capacity and 5,220 sqm (56,100 sq ft) of floor space when fully built out.
The site currently has one of three modules online, with two more due in the near future, which in total will be able to hold 2,280 racks in 24 server rooms.
“MTS has become one of the largest data center players in Russia thanks to our balanced strategy of building out modular data centers as well as opportunistically looking at attractive assets on the market,” said Igor Egorov, vice president for infrastructure development. “When fully equipped, GreenBush will rank among the top-five data centers in Russia by capacity, providing us significant headroom to grow in the Moscow metro area, which today accounts for some 80 percent of the Russian commercial data center market.”
MTS said it plans to use the facility’s additional capacity to offer colocation and cloud solutions to customers as well as to facilitate the company’s own compute and storage needs.
The company, owned by Russian conglomerate Sistema, now has twelve data centers; four centers in Moscow, two in Nizhny Novgorod, one each in the Moscow Region, Leningrad Region, Samara, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, and Krasnodar.
Last month MTS acquired Russian telecoms and communications provider Multiregional TransitTelecom OJSC (MTT) for RUB 5 billion ($68.5 million).
Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/russias-mts-to-acquire-greenbush-data-center-in-moscow/