In Novy Urengoy, a data center in Yamal is being sold: along with the land plot, the buyer is offered equipment for its own electricity generation and cryptocurrency mining. The asking price for the asset is 250 million rubles, and the stated payback period, according to the owner's estimate, is about 20 months.
The facility is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and operates on low-pressure gas from PJSC Gazprom. It is precisely the access to cheap raw materials that the seller cites as one of the main advantages of the business.
What is Being Sold in Novy Urengoy
The site houses energy and mining capacities, and the business itself is presented as an operating enterprise for selling electricity and mining cryptocurrency. The listing was posted by OOO Baikal, which claims to have been working in the energy market of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug for over 25 years and considers itself a reliable supplier for the region.
"Sale of electricity and mining. The company was founded more than 25 years ago and operates in the field of production and supply of electricity in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug," is how the seller described its asset.
The lot price is set at 250 million rubles. According to the owner, the company has 89 active electricity supply contracts. Among the consumers are named:
- A major airline
- Retail chain "Pyaterochka"
- Retail chain "Magnit"
- Other commercial clients
- Infrastructure clients
Why the Business is Called Profitable
The key calculation is based on the cost of gas. Under a direct contract with PJSC Gazprom, one cubic meter of low-pressure gas costs 5.35 rubles including VAT. Thanks to this, the cost of electricity at the output, as the seller claims, is about two rubles per kilowatt-hour.
The company sells electricity to the population and legal entities at a tariff of 8.13 rubles per kilowatt-hour. The owner emphasizes that this tariff is currently valid and economically justified.
The stated financial indicators of the seller:
- Revenue: 100 million rubles
- Net income: 50 million rubles
- Estimated investment return period: about 20 months
What Assets Are Included in the Deal
The data center includes a site for a gas station and mining infrastructure. The available gas volume is stated at 200 thousand cubic meters per hour. Currently, the company has four containers with miners, each being 40-foot.
The list of assets also includes:
- Gas stations PAES-2500: 6
- Power transmission lines: included in the deal
- Residential camp: included in the deal
- Gas-piston units: 6, installed in cooperation with Chinese partners
- Land plot: 2000 square meters
In the digital infrastructure market of Russia, the following operate:
- Company "Megafon"
- Other players in the digital infrastructure market
However, the facility in Novy Urengoy primarily belongs to energy and industrial mining. For Yamal, such projects are important due to the availability of gas generation and demand for capacity.
What a Data Center Is and Why It's Needed
A data center, or data processing center, is a facility where servers, networking equipment, power systems, cooling, and security are housed. Its task is to store and process data, support the operation of websites, applications, cloud services, and corporate IT infrastructure.
Typically, data centers help businesses not keep all equipment on their premises. Typical services include data storage, server rental, cloud services, backup, infrastructure protection, and ensuring continuous operation of systems.
How a Data Center is Structured and What to Look for When Choosing One
Inside a data center, not only servers are important. Stable operation requires backup power, cooling, access control, fire safety systems, monitoring, and networking equipment. Modern facilities also use virtualization to flexibly allocate computing resources. The capacity of such facilities is usually compared by energy consumption, number of servers, and area.
When choosing a data center, reliability, security level, backup systems, location, service cost, and quality of technical support are typically considered. For industrial projects like the one in Novy Urengoy, access to energy and a clear operational economy are particularly important.
What a Data Center Brings to a Territory
If a data processing center appears nearby, local businesses may see demand for electricians, engineers, security, communications, transportation, and maintenance services. For residents, the pluses can be jobs and infrastructure development, while possible minuses include strain on power grids and stricter environmental requirements for the facility.
The Far North is interesting for such projects due to the cold climate, which helps reduce cooling costs, access to energy resources, and remoteness from major cities. In the case of Yamal, gas generation remains the key factor.
Before preparing additional questions, the sale listing was removed from the platform. One interlocutor, close to the mining industry in the north of Russia, believes that the stated business value is inflated.
Context for Yamal
Novy Urengoy is already attracting investors in the field of industrial mining. Construction of a mining hub based on gas generation with a capacity of 440 MW is beginning in the city. Managing partner of the company "Algorithm" Pavel Gudimov previously explained the interest in the project by the low cost of resources and low costs for maintaining engineering infrastructure.
In the future, the total capacity of industrial mining in Novy Urengoy could reach 1.5 GW, with total investments reaching 90 billion rubles. The development of such facilities fits into a broader conversation about the country's digital and energy infrastructure, which at the federal level is being discussed by, among others, President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and relevant agencies.
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