Demand is also fueled by the fact that some customers

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Russian integrators are noting an unprecedented increase in requests for data center construction in 2023. At the end of August, TAdviser found out the opinions of a number of large player companies about the reasons for this trend. Several reasons were voiced, while the experts interviewed agree that deferred demand played a significant role here.

At a press event in August, the Krok company announced that this year customers are generating a huge number of requests for the construction of data centers.

"We see a growing number el salvador whatsapp resource of requests for data centers, confirmed, among other things, by the deals we are conducting. I would say that this is some kind of "boom", we have never built so much, a stunning demand," noted Sergey Paukov, director of the engineering and multimedia systems department at Krok.

Deferred projects have become one of the factors in the increase in requests for data center construction in 2023.
Demand for large data centers has increased especially recently - more than 1 thousand racks, supplied capacity of more than 5 MW. Several projects for the construction of such facilities are currently being implemented in Russia.

Deputy CEO for Business Development, Director of the Department of Infrastructure Solutions and Services at Krok Valentin Gubarev says that over the past year their company has doubled its focus on large infrastructure projects, which includes, among other things, data centers.

Krok had seen growth in this area a year before, but the events of 2022 put these processes on hold because customers had to redesign a lot due to the departure of foreign vendors from Russia. Any complex, comprehensive projects include a large range of products from different manufacturers, and in 2022 it was necessary to turn everything upside down, find new analogues, so the projects slowed down. And in 2023 they "unfroze", and by the end of the year Krok expects this area to double.
, especially those involved in critical information infrastructure (CII) facilities, currently do not want to store data in the cloud, preferring to acquire their own sites.

Lanit-Integration (part of the Lanit Group) also sees a revival in the data center market, and points to the same thing as Krok as one of the factors fueling the demand level - the launch of projects that were put on hold in 2022 due to the need to find new equipment and reliable suppliers. In other words, today data center operators are implementing projects that were already planned or frozen at the construction stage, notes Oleg Aksenov, Director of the Technical Department of Lanit-Integration.

"The market has definitely changed. This is evident from the figures. For example, in 2022, about 6 thousand racks were introduced in Russia, and by the end of the period 2023-2024, several times more are expected," Oleg Aksenov told TAdviser.

Sergey Lysenko, CEO of Atomdata (controlled by Rosenergoatom, part of the Rosatom State Corporation), points out that 2022 significantly exceeded the balanced forecast of analysts in terms of the number of actually commissioned data center capacities. The number of capacities declared for commissioning in 2023 exceeds last year's figures.