Large Russian telecommunications firm Rostelecom is planning to invest $219m into building new data centers and retrofitting its existing facilities into data centers to begin providing data center services in the country, reported Russian news service Kommersant. The plan is to make the investment over the next four years.

The company is going to build two new data centers in Moscow and Saint Petersburg metropolitan areas. The Moscow facility is designed to accommodate 3,500 IT racks and the St. Petersburg one will support 500. Rostelecom