Data center and order

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Deputy Nemkin is confident. He expects that the proposed amendments will be taken into account during further consideration of the bill.

The amendments define what a data center is and talk about the need to send certain data, Kirill Malevanov, technical director of Selectel, commented to RSpectr. Some data may be considered sensitive, for example, the actual load of data centers, he noted.

Kirill Malevanov, Selectel:

- These amendments do not introduce global changes. Given the recent changes in the regulation concerning hosting providers, this is a logical next step. We just need to understand whether all the information is really needed.

The amendments mentioned by deputy Anton Nemkin, which ease the obligations of data center operators to the Ministry of Digital Development, are aimed at correcting the bill that was content writing service considered by the State Duma in the first reading in April 2022, Alexey Nikishenkov, a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia (ALR), shared in a conversation with RSpectr.



This bill is aimed at introducing the concept of "data processing center" and the duties of operators of such centers into the law "On Communications". It provides for the consolidation of the status of a data processing center as an infrastructure facility used to accommodate equipment that ensures the processing and (or) storage of data, establishes the duties of data processing center operators, and introduces a list of information that operators must provide to the Ministry of Digital Development.

However, during the review of the draft, the State Duma IT Committee noted that the definition of the term “data processing center” proposed by the bill is not consistent with the definitions of data processing centers provided for in paragraph 22 of part 1 of article 4 of Federal Law No. 115 and paragraph 20 of part 1 of article 7 of Federal Law No. 224 .

Alexey Nikishenkov, AYUR:

– The bill itself would not have had a significant impact on the data center market if it did not assign to the government the authority to approve the classification of data centers and the criteria for such classification.

The lawyer recalled that

There is no unified classification system for data centers in Russia

In most cases, foreign standards are used in the process of designing data centers, for example, Tier .

"The national project "Data Economy" being developed will require unprecedented investments from the state in the IT sector. The state will build data processing centers, and what requirements they must meet are still being explained by foreign companies," noted Alexey Nikishenkov.

GOST AND DISAGREEMENTS

In his opinion, a trial run in defining this classification was made during the development of the national standard GOST R 70139-2022 “Data processing centers. Engineering infrastructure. Classification”, approved in June 2022, which became a battlefield between Rosstandart and the largest participants in the data center market.

This GOST contains a list of indicators that define the requirements for the engineering infrastructure of data processing centers, and based on these indicators, the class of the data center is determined. The seventy-page document specifies hundreds of parameters for the operation of the data center, including a description of the risks of data loss, the lawyer noted.