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Stay up to date with all the news and events of the Runet.The American company Google has begun moving its servers to Russian data centers. The company's decision is related to preparations for the entry into force of the law on the storage of personal data. This was reported to RBC by participants in a meeting at the Ministry of Communications, who discussed preparations for the entry into force of the law on the storage of personal data at the end of March.

"Google is [now] our client. We are a regime-run semi-state enterprise," said one of the participants in the meeting.

According to Anton Platonov, CEO of StoreData, the company began signing qatar whatsapp number list contracts for equipment placement in Russia more than a year ago. Google now has dozens of racks in Russian data centers.

According to the analytical company PMR, in 2014 the volume of the commercial data center services market in Russia reached 11.7 billion rubles, which is 20.4% more than in 2013.

Ilya Khala, CEO of the 3Data data center network, who also participated in the meeting, noted that the cost of renting a server can vary, but on average is about six thousand rubles.

One of RBC's interlocutors specified that Google has its own equipment and they only needed a hall. Renting a place for one stand costs about two thousand dollars.

Ilya Khala also said that many foreign companies have begun to transfer their capacities to Russia.

"Representatives of Tourmaline Labs, having learned that the new law would soon come into force, turned to us for help. We advised them to keep servers in Russia on which Russian users would work, which they did," the businessman noted.

“Together with the Ministry of Communications, we must prepare the industry and help companies that will transfer personal data about Russian citizens to Russian servers to do this in an organized manner and, if possible, with minimal costs,” said Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev at a meeting in March.