Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest mobile operator has announced the acquisition for RUB 5.2 bn (USD70 million) of 100% of the share capital of GDTs Energy Group, the owner of the GreenBush facility in Moscow’s Zelenograd suburb, one of the largest data center projects in Russia.
The GreenBush Data Center was first launched in 2018 and when fully completed is planned 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.
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.
The GreenBush facility, which has received a TIER-III 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 Moscow Region, Leningrad Region, Samara, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, and Krasnodar.
Igor Egorov, Vice President for Infrastructure Development
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. According to industry experts, the Russian data center market is expected to grow more than 20% annually over the next several years.
