Serbia to complete Kragujevac data centre construction by end-2020 - govt official

The data centre in Kragujevac will have a capacity of approximately 1,200 rack rooms distributed in two facilities with a total footprint of 14,000 square metres, Mihailo Jovanovic, director of Serbia's Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment, said in a press release.

The new data centre meets the EN 50600 European-wide standard specifying the planning, construction and operation of such facilities, it is designed to host mission-critical servers and computer systems under the Tier 4 standard and complies with the 2N redundancy standard, Jovanovic said.

Serbia is investing 30 million euro ($35.5 million) in the construction of the data centre which will have several hundred employees after its development is completed, prime minister Ana Brnabic said in November 2019.

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