Overview
- The decree requires owners of non-state Russian data centres to hold 10% of their capacity for use by state IT services and infrastructure.
- A special government commission will be able to order release of the reserved capacity and operators must provide access within 24 hours of such an order.
- The Digital Development Ministry has been tasked with conducting a nationwide inventory of private data‑centre capacity and floor space to map available resources.
- Officials framed the measure as a response to recent drone strikes on Russian data centres and it also permits temporary use of facilities abroad subject to FSB approval.
- The rule will raise compliance and operational costs for private operators, complicate commercial hosting contracts, and concentrate oversight of critical IT infrastructure in central security bodies.