Rostelecom

Rostelecom PJSC is Russia’s largest digital-services and telecommunications provider, operating a nationwide network and a significant data-centre footprint. Its strategic significance in the data-centre market stems from leveraging its telecom backbone, national reach, and large-scale infrastructure to serve government, enterprise and carrier customers. For example, Rostelecom’s data-centre network spans over 30 000 m² of data-hall area and more than 13,000 racks. The company operates facilities in major hubs such as Moscow (including the NORD-campus), St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and others across Russia. Its unique positioning is as both a national telecom operator and an infrastructure provider, enabling colocation, cloud, connectivity and digital-services all under one umbrella — which gives customers deep integration, geographic scale and carrier strength.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• A network of over 31 data-processing centres with more than 13,170 racks and ~145.7 MW of available power capacity.
• In Moscow, the NORD-5 facility offers capacity for circa 600 racks and forms part of the new campus developments.
• New facility in Nizhny Novgorod (via subsidiary) spans ~3,539 m² with 401 racks and ~5 MW IT capacity.
• Nationwide presence leveraging Rostelecom’s telecom and fibre infrastructure ensures connectivity, redundancy and deliverability across regions.
• Modular rollout and regional edge-site expansion to meet localized computing and data sovereignty requirements across Russia.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Facilities designed for enterprise and government workloads with large-scale infrastructure and redundant systems across power, cooling and connectivity.
• Rostelecom’s infrastructure supports state-grade digital services (including government systems) which implies high levels of operational reliability, security controls and regulatory alignment.
• Redundant network access, diversified sites and resilient architecture built to service mission-critical systems across Russia’s regions.
• While specific commercial certifications (e.g., ISO 27001) for every facility may not be publicly listed, the scale and nature of operations suggest strong compliance and governance frameworks.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• As a major national telecom operator, Rostelecom offers deep fibre-optic backbone, cross-regional connectivity, inter-data-centre links and peering capabilities.
• Facilities such as NORD campus provide multi-site distributed infrastructure in Moscow region, supporting large-scale, interconnected data-centre capability.
• Carrier-neutral (to the extent of colocation/DC business within network architecture) and integrated with its own backbone network, providing strong connectivity for enterprise, cloud and service-provider customers.
• Supports distributed workloads across Russia’s regions, meeting latency, regional presence and digital sovereignty needs.

💼 Who It Serves

• Large enterprises, national government and public-sector organisations requiring hosting, colocation, cloud and connectivity in Russia with trusted national-scale provider.
• Telecoms, service-providers and carriers seeking wholesale, backbone, interconnection and data-centre services within one integrated provider.
• Cloud and digital-services companies needing platform, data-centre and network infrastructure across multiple Russian regions.
• Companies with regulatory or sovereignty requirements needing localization, regional presence or multi-site deployments within Russia