No . of Data Centres : 33 Biggest Project : Rostelecom is building an 80 MW data centre on the outskirts of Moscow , attached to a nuclear power plant .

Major Operators : Rostelecom , MTS , IXcellerate

Russia has been described as the next great frontier of data centre development . IXcellerate CEO , Guy Willner , expanded on the phenomenon in a recent interview , saying “ Until just a few years ago , there was more data center capacity in Luxemburg than in all of Russian Federation .” According to Willner , the Russian market is on track to grow at double the rate of Western Europe and the US over the next five years , with the lion ’ s share of that growth centred in Moscow . With the exception of a few privately owned campuses - IXcellerate ’ s two hyperscale sites being among them - the majority of data centres in Moscow are owned and operated by stateowned operator Rostelecom and its subsidiaries .

No . of Data Centres : 29 Primary Source of Data Centre Investment :

Hyperscale Cloud

Major Operators : Princeton Digital , Keppel Data Centres , SpaceDC

Jakarta is one of several Southeast Asian markets to benefit from the Singapore data centre moratorium . Indonesia ’ s data centre industry market was valued at $ 1.53bn in 2020 , and it is expected to reach a value of just over $ 3bn by 2026 , registering a CAGR of 12.95 %. Jakarta is home to more than 10mn people and is growing fast , bringing its digital economy along with it , and the focus is expected to remain firmly on Jakarta . According to a Mordor Intelligence report , “ the demand for data services and infrastructure is expected to increase exponentially ,” in Indonesia ’ s leading market over the next few years .

156 October 2021