On September 10, the ceremony of starting the construction of the Data Processing and Storage Centre took place via videoconference in the Innopolis Special Economic Zone. The ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Director General of Rosatom Corporation Aleksey Likhachev, Aide to the Tatarstan President Albert Nafigin, Tatarstan Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov, and Tatarstan Minister of Economy Midhat Shagiakhmetov.
The project in the Innopolis SEZ is being implemented by the Rosenergoatom concern within the framework of a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Tatarstan Government and a programme for the development of a geo-distributed and disaster-resistant data centre network. The Innopolis Data Centre may become the largest one in the Volga Federal District. The cost of investment in the construction and engineering infrastructure of data centre’s Phase 1 will be about RUB 3 billion. The project will be implemented by Atomdata-Innopolis.
Today, the Innopolis SEZ hosts 105 residents, 21 partners, and 52 startups. Many development centres of major Russian corporations and branches of international companies have been opened here. A total of 3,600 jobs were created to date. SEZ residents and partners include Acronis, Yandex, Alfa-Bank, Schneider Electric, Magnit IT Lab, IT X5 Technologies, Open Mobile Platform, New Cloud Technologies, ICL Group, Sberbank of Russia, S7 TechLab, and the Russian Post. The residents and partners of the Innopolis SEZ have invested RUB 23.8 billion.