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Peering platform and a host of content providers like Wildberries (' Russia ' s Amazon ') are present on the Eurasia Peering platform and able to exchange information with one another .”
The first data centre , Moscow One , was housed in a 6,000 sq m warehouse , on a leased site , he explains . “ We fitted a small part of it out as a data centre , started putting customers in there , raised more equity and fitted out more till the entire warehouse was full .” Today Moscow One has 1,835 rack spaces and a power capacity of 13.7 MW . Soon an adjacent site also with a warehouse on it became Moscow Two , with 1,580 rack spaces and an additional 13,5 MW power . Moscow Two was inaugurated on October 3 , 2019 by HRH Prince Michael of Kent , someone who is well known in Russia as Chairman of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce . “ Our Russian guests were dumbfounded . Prince Michael is a Romanov by descent , a fluent Russian speaker who is very popular in Russia – he gave a speech in Russian and then spent over an hour and a half walking round the facility
and chatting to everyone , insisting on spending more time with the junior staff than with the leadership !”
The first ten percent of building a business in an emerging market takes five years , Willner estimates . It then takes two years to build up the next 40 % and maybe 18 months to achieve
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