Need to dig": The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maxut Shadev, suggested that data centers are "going underground".
Obviously you need to dig deeper. A choice between two stories - moving abroad or going underground, of course we are [in favor] of them going underground and not moving.
According to the minister, such projects already exist, but he did not share the details.
In recent months, the data centers of Yandex, Sberbank and VK have been attacked by the armed forces of Ukraine. Against this background, Russia put forward several ideas for the protection of data centers - the head of Kuzbass suggested placing data centers in invested coal mines, and the vice chairman of Rostelecom advocated the creation of a "doomsday" data center.
On November 2, Vladimir Putin signed a decree temporarily allowing the use of foreign data centers.