The bill according to which data centers will form a separate industry will be considered by the State Duma in the spring session. The document introduces the concept of a data center in the legal framework in order to be able to independently regulate its individual aspects.

Experts proposed the following definition: “Data center is a communication facility with a complex of engineering and technical support systems, designed and used to accommodate equipment that provides processing and (or) storage of data, that conforms with the approved classification.”

In the future, data center operators will be able to stop using licenses for the provision of communication services and receive their own foreign economic activity code, which will be introduced after the bill enters into force.

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