Cloud ru, formerly part of the Sber ecosystem, plans to build its own data center in the Moscow region. Investments in the project will amount to about 30 billion rubles. This was announced by Mikhail Lobotsky, acting CEO of the company, at the GoCloud 2026 conference.
The new data center may be more powerful than the provider's current leased capacities, which currently reach 56.1 MW. According to Lobotsky, one rack on modern servers consumes an average of 150 kW. Currently, Cloud ru is testing servers of Russian and Chinese production - they are most likely to work at the new site. The construction time has not yet been determined: the company is negotiating with potential contractors.
Cloud ru was founded in 2018 as SberCloud — a joint project of Sberbank and IT company I-Teco. Until May 2022, the company was fully controlled by Sber, but after the start of the geopolitical crisis, the bank withdrew from the capital, and the provider changed its name to Cloud ru, becoming an independent player. In 2022, a large group of technical specialists from the Russian representative office of Intel moved to the company, which significantly strengthened its human resources potential. Today, Cloud ru is the largest Russian cloud provider: its share in the IaaS market is 29.7%, and in the PaaS market — 44.6%. The company's revenue for 2025 increased by 50%, to 76.5 billion rubles, with more than half of this amount (54%) accounted for by AI services and IT infrastructure.