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Russia, electricity needs going into the 21st century.

Surprising to me reading a Katarina's analysis,

it's very similar to the same concerns for the United States. Why? They're called

data centers. They're also called server farms. They turn out to be enormous consumers of electricity, and where is it coming from?

A Katerina, a very good day to you.

You mentioned cryptocurrency.

Yes, that is a huge demand as well. So I'm going to

group cryptocurrency because it's digital in with server farms in with data centers.

You at one point say that there is data center

Balakova that takes as much electricity as the city it's nearby of 200,000

people. Is this a concern in Moscow now? Do you have rolling

blackouts? Are you worried about brownouts? Good evening to you.

Good evening, yes indeed right now Russia is constructing a lot of data centers because the

artificial intelligence is introducing into the daily life of Russian citizens and as well into the different business.

So right now the government is supporting the introduction of

artificial intelligence and these is consuming a lot of energy.

Well talking about Moscow in fact it will be surprising but Moscow is facing deficit of electricity

Moscow is a very huge city and it's consuming a lot of electricity for different needs. First of all for these citizens, second there is a lot of different type of business, and of course there are a lot of areas that could consume more electricity as we're speaking about the data centers too.

And the major problem that the government is trying to fix this deficit that Moscow faces and by the way not only Moscow faces in Russia

but unfortunately the plans sometimes can't be can't become true. First of all, Russia faces some

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