In the near future,
Sberbank plans to launch construction work on the territory of the
Skolkovo Innovation Center. The issue of building a data center and a technopark is almost resolved. In late April, President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg and Sberbank President German Gref talked about this.
The intention to build a data center Sberbank reported back in 2011. At first, Skolkovo could not guarantee Sberbank engineering infrastructure (for example, supplying electricity to facilities), then there was a time of political uncertainty, and in 2014 the project was suspended due to difficulties in the economy, a source
told Vedomosti.
One data center (called “South Port”) the bank already has. Its construction cost $ 1.2 billion. By creating a second data center, Sberbank will solve the problem of resiliency. It is planned to install about two thousand server racks. The area of ​​machine rooms should be at least five thousand square meters.
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SCM Group holding was chosen as a contractor. It is planned to spend 9.5 billion rubles on the construction.
Sberbank announced a tender for the design of a technopark relatively recently - in November last year. It is assumed that its area will be about one hundred thousand square kilometers. Sberbank's IT services, as well as its start-ups, will operate in the technology park. For example, its subsidiary Sbertech will move there. The cost of the technopark is estimated at 742.5 million rubles.