Czech Radiocommunications will build a data center on the outskirts of Prague for several billion crowns. This was confirmed by the company’s sales director Miloš Mastník. It will be the largest data center in the Czech Republic. It is scheduled for the end of 2024.
The data center will be built on Czech Radio’s own land near Zbraslav in Prague. It will have a capacity of at least 2000 server cabinets. The company now has the largest data center under the Žižkov transmitter in Prague and smaller centers in Prague’s Strahov, Pardubice and Ostrava. All these existing centers have a total capacity of over 500 server cabinets.
According to Mastník, the project of the new center is a response to the demand of multinational companies that need to place their servers in centers with the necessary infrastructure and security. “Today, there is simply no such capacity that these companies demand. The second thing is that we see how critical energy optimization is becoming for companies. In the future, centers with higher consumption will be very difficult to offer,” he said. According to the server, the company is now selecting a designer for the establishment of the center and wants to start construction at the beginning of 2024 at the latest.
In addition to data centers, Czech Radiocommunications also operates a nationwide network of television and radio transmitters and an optical backbone network. In the financial year 2020/2021, the company’s sales and profit decreased. Revenues fell by about seven percent year on year to CZK 2.25 billion and profit by 39 percent to CZK 141.5 million. Last year, Cordiant Digital Infrastructure funds bought České Radiokomunikace from Macquarie Asset Management funds. They did not publish the price, but according to analysts’ estimates, it could reach 20 to 30 billion crowns.
Source: HN.cz, CTK and České radiokomunikace
