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Ukraine's Drone Strikes Spur Hasty Russian Plans For Underground Data Centers

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Ukraine's Drone Strikes Spur Hasty Russian Plans For Underground Data Centers
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [S]tate-owned telecommunications company Rostelcom has raised the possibility of moving some Russian data centers underground in talks with the nickel and palladium mining company Norilsk, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti. The industry publication Data Center Dynamics also pointed to a recent proposal by a Russian regional governor to build data centers within open-pit coal mines while planting green public parks above as camouflage.

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