Back on April 30, we wrote that the Yandex data center, located in Finland, was disconnected from electricity. A week has passed – and nothing has changed: the company contacted various suppliers, but during this time the matter did not move forward.
As it turned out, on January 1, 2022, Yandex signed a five-year contract with the previous supplier, Ilmatar Energia, for the supply of electricity from wind turbines, but the Finnish company, according to Aleksey Zhumykin, head of Yandex data center operations, terminated it “unilaterally on formal grounds.
“We tried to negotiate terms, offer a more attractive price, show the constancy and continuity of our work”– said Zhumykin. The company contacted a “wide range” of suppliers, but received only “evasive responses” in response. Despite the current problems, Yandex is not yet considering moving the data center from Finland.
Finnish companies have no real reasons to refuse energy supplies to Yandex, says Jukka Leskelä, director general of the Finnish Energy Industry Association. “Companies cannot sell electricity if the buyer is on the sanctions list, but Yandex is not on these lists, so there must be another reason”— said Jukka Leskelya.
At the same time, according to the Finnish edition of Yle, citing the Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka, the work of Yandex in Finland is worrying, and the company is under “special control”. According to him, the ministry is “updating its assessment of the company” due to the coverage of the special operation in Ukraine in Yandex services.
Source: ixbt
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