Russian cloud technology provider Cloud.ru has begun construction on its first data center in Moscow, Russia.As reported by Russian publication Vedomosti, the data center is expected to be commissioned in 2027.The facility will be used to expand Cloud.ru's cloud and AI capacity and meet growing demand from businesses and government organizations.The data center will have a capacity of around 11MW, and can house up to 890 racks with a density of 20kW per rack.Mikhail Lobotsky, CEO of Cloud.ru declined to comment on the PUE, exact location, and investment in the project. Vedomosti, however, reports that sources involved in the construction said the data center would be located in Domodedovo.Apple Hills Digital's head of Russian market research, Vasily Pimenov, estimated that the project would cost 8-12 billion rubles for engineering infrastructure and construction alone.Cloud.ru currently operates some 30,000 servers across nine commercial data centers, with a total IT footprint of 60MW. Reports that the company was planning to build its own data center first emerged in April 2026.Cloud.ru was formerly known as SberCloud. The company launched an AI supercomputer dubbed Christofari in 2019, which was developed with Nvidia and based on a DGX-2 cluster with Tesla V100 chips. A couple of years later, Cloud.ru revealed the Christofari Neo supercomputer, which it said had double the compute power.In March 2020, Cloud.ru launched an "advanced cloud platform" based on Huawei technology.Elsewhere in Russia, the Investment Committee of St. Petersburg revealed that two data centers will be built in the Moskovsky and Vyborgsky districts of St. Petersburg.Across the country, however, there seems to be a growing pause on new data center developments. Data from TechExpo and the Russian Federal Property Management Agency (PKR) suggests that some 38 data center construction projects in the country have been paused in the last three years. A total of 128 projects have been announced in that time.Moscow is by far Russia's largest data center market, though the country has secondary markets in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.