Purchases of IT services abroad in the second quarter of the year jumped by 30% and reached 909 million dollars. This is according to the data of the central bank. Russian companies purchase foreign software, pay foreign contractors for processing and storing data and maintaining IT systems (c) Izvestia Businesses do not have enough servers with powerful video cards to work with AI. Chip supply has dropped from thousands of units in 2024 to dozens in 2026. Delivery times jumped from two months to six months. When equipment cannot be imported, its replacement becomes the rental of computing power abroad, and the import of goods actually flows into the import of services. And against this background, the Ministry of Digital Development plans to limit foreign Internet traffic? seriously? This will return the country to development for years.

Purchases of IT services abroad in the second quarter of the year jumped by 30% and reached 909 million dollars. This is according to the data of the central bank. Russian companies purchase foreign software, pay foreign contractors for processing and storing data and maintaining IT systems (c) Izvestia Businesses do not have enough servers with powerful video cards to work with AI. Chip supply has dropped from thousands of units in 2024 to dozens in 2026. Delivery times jumped from two months to six months. When equipment cannot be imported, its replacement becomes the rental of computing power abroad, and the import of goods actually flows into the import of services. And against this background, the Ministry of Digital Development plans to limit foreign Internet traffic? seriously? This will return the country to development for years.