Russian strongman Vladimir Putin described a plan on Thursday to build networks of data storage and processing centers in the country’s Arctic, alongside “small nuclear power plants” developed to feed the data centers energy.
\n\nPutin made the revelation during an appearance at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), an event highlighting investments and business plans for eastern Russia held in the far-east city of Vladivostok. While development of the Arctic to build data centers has already become a popular idea globally, as the cold means the centers require less energy to keep the hardware from overheating, Putin’s comments follow growing interest, particularly from China, in the Arctic for other uses such as redirecting global shipping threatened in the Middle East by Iranian terrorism. It also follows Putin holding a meeting last month to specifically address Russia’s national security interests in the Arctic region.
\n\nAccording to the Russian news agency Tass, Putin stated that his government is planning the construction of data centers both in the Arctic and in other areas of the Russian Far East. To power them, the Russian government is seeking to dramatically expand nuclear power resources in the region.
\n\n“New power generation facilities are set to appear in…
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