Rostelecom's subsidiary, RTK-TsOD, has commissioned the third phase of its data center in Yekaterinburg. As reported by TASS in the operator's press service, the total capacity of the facility has reached 6 MW, and the number of rack spaces has increased to 644. The total area of the machine rooms is now 3.1 thousand sq. m.
The site is located within the city limits, providing convenient transport accessibility for clients. More than a dozen telecom operators and a traffic exchange point are already operating inside – this allows for quick client connections and the construction of fault-tolerant telecom infrastructure without multiplexing channels through external nodes. David Martirosov, CEO of RTK-TsOD, called the Yekaterinburg cluster the company's largest operating data center in the eastern part of the country.
RTK-TsOD manages a network of 26 data centers with a total capacity of 235 MW and 27.8 thousand racks, certified to Tier III. The expansion in the Urals reflects the trend of deploying computing power outside the Moscow region, reducing latency for industrial and cloud clients in Siberia and the Urals. For a region with growing demand for on-site data processing, the addition of 644 racks means reduced reliance on backbone channels to metropolitan data centers, which is critical for production IT systems sensitive to latency.
