Putin says Russian companies can now use foreign data centers following wave of major Ukraine drone strikes
- Russian companies can now be approved to use overseas data center facilities
- 10% of Russian data center capacities must be reserved for government use
- The country could be exploring hiding data centers underground
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an emergency decree allowing domestic companies to temporarily use overseas data centers after a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on the country's own data centers.
Importantly, companies can't just up and leave homegrown data centers – the government would still have to approve any arrangements, likely assessing the availability of domestic compute before granting permission.
Under the change in rules, Russian data center operators would also have to reserve 10% of their capacity for emergency government use – they would have to give up this capacity at just 24 hours' notice, if it comes to it.
Russia may be forced into using foreign data centers
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