Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market is valued at USD 137.47 million in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 346.22 million by 2035, up from USD 117.58 million in 2025, a CAGR of 11.40% from 2025 to 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). The Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market covers the cooling plant, containment, thermal controls and thermal services that keep Russian data halls inside their temperature limits. Russia’s cooling bill is set by a cold climate meeting a broken supply chain: Yandex runs its largest data centers on year-round direct free cooling at a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.12 in 2025 (Source: Yandex, June 2026), which keeps cooling content per megawatt (MW) low, while the 2022 exits of Schneider Electric, Danfoss and Rittal from Russia forced operators to re-source chillers, compressors and containment from local and Chinese makers (Source: Schneider Electric, Danfoss, Rittal). The receipt behind the 2025 figure is 80 MW of new IT capacity × USD 0.90 million of thermal content per MW = USD 72.00 million of new-build spend, plus 1,013 MW of installed IT load × USD 45 thousand a year of service, software and engineering = USD 45.58 million. Immersion cooling is the fastest cooling approach at 25.66% a year, after a presidential instruction of October 2026 asked for scaled-up Russian production with Sberbank and Yandex, and the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts are the fastest region at 20.81% a year because new sites move away from the congested Moscow grid.

Key Market Statistics: How Big Is the Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market in 2026?

DC Market Insights values the Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market at USD 137.47 million in 2026, 16.92% above 2025, as new IT capacity completed in Russia recovers from 80 MW to 95 MW.

• Market size 2025: USD 117.58 million (about USD 117.6 million)
• Market size 2026: USD 137.47 million
• Market size 2030: USD 240.56 million
• Market size 2035: USD 346.22 million
• CAGR 2025-2035: 11.40% (low case 8.67%, high case 13.83%)
• Largest component: Cooling Equipment, 54.43% of 2025 spend (USD 64.00 million)
• Fastest cooling approach: Immersion Cooling at 25.66% a year, from USD 3.53 million to USD 34.62 million
• Leading region: Central Federal District, 72.00% of 2025 spend
• Fastest region: Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts at 20.81% a year
• Largest subject: Moscow (city), USD 35.27 million in 2025
• Largest buyer: RTK-DC (Rostelecom Data Centers), about 21.8% of installed IT capacity (235 MW of about 1,078 MW, DC Market Insights estimate)

Key Takeaways: What Changed for Russian Data Center Cooling After 2022?

DC Market Insights draws four takeaways from a Russia data center thermal management market that grows from USD 117.58 million in 2025 to USD 346.22 million in 2035.

• Free cooling is the default design in Russia, because the long-term mean daily July temperature in Leningrad region is only about 20 °C (Source: Selectel); free-cooling and adiabatic air systems hold 52.00% of 2025 spend.
• 2025 was a down year, because new IT completions fell from 140 MW in 2024 to 80 MW (DC Market Insights estimate) and RTK-DC added only about 1,400 racks, +5% (Source: Rostelecom, May 2026); spend fell 30.36% from USD 168.83 million to USD 117.58 million.
• Services carry almost a third of the market, because an installed base of about 1,078 MW needs maintenance and spare parts for equipment whose original makers left; Thermal Services hold 31.87% of 2025 spend.
• Liquid cooling is the growth pool, because racks above 30 kW grow from 8% to 28% of spend by 2035; direct-to-chip and immersion together rise from 10.00% to 28.00%.

Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market Summary: How Much Did Russian Operators Spend on Keeping Data Halls Cool in 2025?

Russia spent USD 117.58 million on data center thermal management in 2025. The Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market size was valued at USD 75.36 million in 2020, reached USD 117.58 million in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 346.22 million by 2035, at a CAGR of 11.40% during the forecast period. From 2020 to 2025 the market grew 9.30% a year, with a sanctions dip in 2022 (USD 84.08 million) and a build peak in 2024 (USD 168.83 million).

Report attribute	Details
Historical period	2020-2024
Base year	2025
Forecast period	2026-2035
Market size 2025	USD 117.58 million
Market size 2026	USD 137.47 million
CAGR 2025-2035	11.40%
Market size 2035	USD 346.22 million

Growth runs at 16.92% in 2026 and 22.46% in 2027 as Moscow-region campuses such as IXcellerate’s Veshki site fit out their first halls, then eases to 7.29% by 2035, when annual completions level off near 185 MW and the installed base carries 39.93% of spend. Read with the Russia Data Center Market, the thermal layer is a small share of total facility spend because free cooling replaces much of the compressor plant used in warmer markets.

Which Cooling Products and Services Count in the Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market?

Russia data center thermal management is the USD 117.58 million (2025) layer of hardware, software and services that removes heat from Russian data halls, counted where the data center is built.

Included

• Cooling equipment: chillers and dry coolers with free-cooling coils, adiabatic and indirect evaporative units, computer-room air conditioners and air handlers, in-row units, coolant distribution units (CDUs), cold plates and manifolds in the facility loop, and immersion tanks and fluids (USD 64.00 million in 2025).
• Containment systems: hot- and cold-aisle containment, blanking and airflow parts (USD 4.80 million).
• Thermal monitoring and controls: sensors, controllers, the thermal modules of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and building management systems (BMS) (USD 11.30 million).
• Thermal services: commissioning, maintenance, refrigerant and fluid service, spare-parts supply and retrofits (USD 37.48 million).

Excluded

• Heat sinks and fans inside servers, power and electrical distribution, comfort air conditioning in office space, and the electricity used by the cooling plant. Crypto-mining farms are excluded: their open-air and container cooling is not a data center thermal market.

How the Segments Fit Together

The four components add to the total in every year; new-build projects carry USD 72.00 million and the installed base USD 45.58 million in 2025. The cooling-approach, data-center-type and rack-density splits allocate the same total. This national edition sits inside the global Data Center Thermal Management Market, which DC Market Insights values at USD 42.27 billion in 2026; Russia is about 0.33% of that figure.

Why Do Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market Estimates Differ?

Russia data center thermal management estimates differ because definitions and capacity bases differ; DC Market Insights puts the 2026 market at USD 137.47 million on a facility-thermal definition.

The earlier DC Market Insights edition put 2025 at USD 457.49 million on a broader, top-down basis whose regional rows did not add up to the national figure; this edition replaces it with a bottom-up model on about 1,078 MW of installed IT load and 80 MW of 2025 completions. Broader definitions also add server-internal fans and heat sinks, uninterruptible power, crypto-mining farm ventilation, telecom shelters and the electricity bill of the cooling plant, which can triple the headline. Small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs), regional banks, public agencies and edge operators are in scope as buyers.

Element	In this report	Why
Chillers, free-cooling and adiabatic units, CDUs, immersion	Yes, USD 64.00 million	Core heat-removal plant
Containment	Yes, USD 4.80 million	Sets cooling load per rack
Thermal software and sensors	Yes, USD 11.30 million	Controls set points
Thermal services	Yes, USD 37.48 million	Keeps an orphaned installed base running
Crypto-mining farm cooling	No	Not a data center hall
Electricity for cooling	No	Operating cost

Market Drivers: What Drives Demand for Data Center Cooling in Russia From 2026?

Three Russia-specific forces lift Russia data center thermal management spend from USD 117.58 million in 2025 to USD 240.56 million in 2030, a 15.39% annual rate.

The first force is new Moscow-region capacity: DC Market Insights expects completions to rise from 80 MW in 2025 to 95 MW in 2026 and 160 MW in 2030, and each megawatt carries USD 0.92 million of thermal content in 2026. The second is the largest commercial operator rebuilding its supply chain: RTK-DC holds about 235 MW, 21.8% of the installed base, and replaced foreign cooling equipment after 2022. The third is cloud demand growing near 40% a year, which moves racks from below 10 kW to 10-30 kW and lifts the 10-30 kW segment from 37.00% of spend in 2025 to 44.00% in 2035. Together the three forces add USD 122.98 million of annual spend between 2025 and 2030, of which new-build projects carry USD 88.82 million and the installed base USD 34.17 million.

Moscow-Region Campuses at 12 kW per Rack: IXcellerate Veshki, 130 MW

IXcellerate launched its Veshki campus in Mytishchi in November 2025 with 7,500 racks and more than 130 MW; the first building, MOS11, has 2,500 racks and 40 MW at an average of 12 kW per rack, scalable to 44 kW, and uses Low Speed Ventilation with free cooling and adiabatic pre-cooling for a target annual PUE of 1.33 (Source: IXcellerate, November 2025). At USD 0.92 million of thermal content per MW in 2026, MOS11 alone carries about USD 36.8 million of Russia data center thermal management value as it is built (DC Market Insights estimate). IXcellerate plans to add about 2,000 racks a year across its campuses (Source: IXcellerate), about 24 MW a year at 12 kW per rack, or about USD 22 million of thermal equipment a year at 2026 content; the second building, MOS12, follows in 2029-2030, keeping Moscow Oblast the faster-growing of the two Moscow subjects at 10.15% a year.

RTK-DC Doubles Its Rack Base to 27,637 Racks

Rostelecom’s data center arm RTK-DC (Rostelecom Data Centers) doubled its rack base to 27,637 racks over a five-year programme of more than 38 billion Russian rubles (RUB 38 billion), with about one third spent on engineering and IT equipment, and says it diversified its vendor list and found replacements for key foreign equipment (Source: Rostelecom, May 2026). With 26 Tier III sites and 235 MW, RTK-DC is the largest single buyer of Russian data center cooling, about 21.8% of installed IT load (DC Market Insights estimate). RTK-DC added about 1,400 racks in 2025 at an average of about 8.45 kW per rack (235 MW over about 27,800 racks), or about 11.8 MW, which at USD 0.90 million per MW is about USD 10.6 million of 2025 thermal spend from one buyer (DC Market Insights estimate). Its May 2025 Nizhny Novgorod site packs 401 racks into 5 MW, about 12.5 kW per rack, 48% above the network average, so each new RTK-DC hall needs more cooling per rack than the halls it built in 2021.

Cloud Demand Growing Near 40% a Year

Yandex Cloud revenue rose 39% to RUB 27.6 billion in 2025 (Source: Yandex Cloud, FY2025 results), and Selectel reported revenue up 39% to RUB 18.3 billion with RUB 2.9 billion of capital spending on new data center infrastructure (Source: Selectel, IFRS 2025). DC Market Insights links this demand to hyperscale and cloud self-build thermal spend, whose share of the market rises from 30.00% in 2025 to 38.00% in 2035, a 14.07% annual rate. Cloud halls are designed above the 8.45 kW RTK-DC network average because graphics processing unit (GPU) servers sit in them, which is why racks of 10-30 kW grow from USD 43.50 million in 2025 to USD 152.34 million in 2035, a 13.35% CAGR.

Market Trends: Is Free Cooling or Liquid Cooling Winning in Russian Data Centers?

Russia data center thermal management is shifting from compressor-heavy room cooling to free cooling and liquid loops: chilled-water and direct-expansion (DX) air falls from 38.00% of spend in 2025 to 22.00% in 2035.

Free Cooling Pushes PUE to 1.12

Yandex reported a PUE of 1.12 for its largest data centers in 2025, down from 1.15 in 2024 and against a world average of 1.56 it cites, using its own direct free-cooling design (Source: Yandex, June 2026). Selectel runs its Berzarina site in Moscow at a PUE of about 1.20 and starts chiller compressors only above 12 °C outdoors (Source: Selectel). Every 0.10 point of PUE saved on a 10 MW hall avoids about 8.76 GWh of electricity a year, which is why free-cooling and adiabatic air keeps 50.00% of spend in 2035.

Immersion Cooling Becomes Industrial Policy

In October 2026 a presidential instruction asked the government, with Sberbank and Yandex, to work out how to scale up Russian production of immersion cooling systems for data centers, with a report due by 1 December 2026 (Source: Kremlin list of instructions, October 2026). DC Market Insights models immersion at USD 3.53 million in 2025 rising to USD 34.62 million by 2035, the fastest Russia data center thermal management approach at 25.66% a year.

Modular Data Centers With 4 MW Blocks

MTS (Mobile TeleSystems) offers a modular data center design of four 150-rack modules with 4 MW of IT load and an annual PUE of 1.15, deployed in Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, St Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod (Source: MTS, April 2026). Prefabricated cooling in such blocks supports the 16.01% annual growth of the Volga Federal District.

Market Challenges and Restraints: What Slows Data Center Cooling Projects in Russia Under Sanctions?

Two constraints could cut 2035 Russia data center thermal management spend to the USD 270.05 million low case, 22.00% below the base case.

Vendor Exits Leave an Orphaned Installed Base

Schneider Electric signed a binding agreement in July 2022 to sell its Russian business to local management with a write-off of up to EUR 300 million (Source: Schneider Electric, July 2022); Danfoss sold its Russian businesses in 2022 and Rittal stopped deliveries in March 2022 (Source: Danfoss, Rittal). DC Market Insights estimates that thermal content per MW jumped 11.63% from USD 0.86 million in 2021 to USD 0.96 million in 2022 because of parallel imports and redesigns, and parts for about 650 MW of pre-2020 halls now come through distributors.

Slower Completions and Physical Risk

New IT completions fell to 80 MW in 2025 from 140 MW in 2024 (DC Market Insights estimate), and in October 2026 Yandex said drone attacks had damaged its data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir, halting operations at Sasovo and Vladimir (Source: Yandex, October 2026). Each 20 MW of delayed or lost capacity defers about USD 18.4 million of thermal equipment at 2026 content (DC Market Insights estimate).

Market Opportunities: Where Is the Money for Cooling Service and Liquid Retrofits in Russia?

Two pools offer data center thermal management suppliers in Russia about USD 206 million a year by 2035.

Service and Spare Parts on a 2.4 GW Installed Base

The installed IT base grows from about 1,078 MW in 2025 to 2,377 MW in 2035, and Thermal Services grow from USD 37.48 million to USD 109.26 million, an 11.29% CAGR, as operators replace exited-vendor support contracts with local service.

High-Density Retrofits Above 30 kW per Rack

Racks above 30 kW carry USD 9.41 million of 2025 spend and USD 96.94 million by 2035, a 26.27% CAGR; MOS11 halls designed for up to 44 kW per rack show where direct-to-chip loops and CDUs go first.

Pricing: How Much Does Data Center Cooling Cost per MW in Russia?

DC Market Insights estimates Russia data center thermal management content at USD 0.90 million per MW of new IT load in 2025, rising to USD 1.12 million in 2035 as liquid loops are added.

Year	New-build thermal content (USD million per MW)	Installed-base run-rate (USD thousand per MW per year)
2020	0.84	38.4
2025	0.90	45.0
2030	1.01	52.8
2035	1.12	62.1

Public anchors: RTK-DC put about one third of RUB 38 billion into engineering and IT equipment over five years (Source: Rostelecom); the 2025 average official exchange rate was RUB 83.21 per USD (DC Market Insights calculation from Bank of Russia daily rates); and content per MW stays below markets that need full compressor plant because direct free cooling covers most hours. Cooling equipment alone averaged USD 0.80 million per MW in 2025.

Standards and Regulation: Which Rules Shape Data Center Cooling in Russia?

Four rules and one global guideline shape how USD 137.47 million of 2026 Russia data center thermal management spend is designed.

• Federal Law (FZ) 242-FZ on personal-data localisation (in force since September 2015): keeps processing of Russian citizens’ personal data in Russian data centers, the base of domestic demand (Source: Federal Law 242-FZ of 21 July 2014).
• Presidential instruction on immersion cooling (October 2026): a government report on scaling Russian production is due by 1 December 2026 (Source: Kremlin list of instructions).
• Federal Law 221-FZ of August 2024 on cryptocurrency mining: sets the legal frame that separates mining farms from data centers, which is why mining cooling is outside this market.
• Uptime Tier III design, which RTK-DC states for all 26 sites (Source: Rostelecom): drives N+1 chiller and air-handler redundancy, so cooling plant is bought above the IT load.
• ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 thermal guidelines: recommended server inlet range of 18-27 °C; Selectel uses a 23 °C supply set point (Source: Selectel).

Market Segmentation: Which Russia Data Center Thermal Management Segment Carries the Value?

Cooling Equipment leads Russia data center thermal management with USD 64.00 million in 2025 (54.43%), while Thermal Monitoring and Controls grows fastest among components at 12.41% a year.

By Component

Component	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Cooling Equipment	64.00	54.43%	189.46	11.46%
Containment Systems	4.80	4.08%	11.10	8.74%
Thermal Monitoring and Controls	11.30	9.61%	36.40	12.41%
Thermal Services	37.48	31.87%	109.26	11.29%

By Cooling Approach

Cooling approach	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Free Cooling and Adiabatic Air	61.14	52.00%	173.11	10.97%
Chilled Water and DX Air	44.68	38.00%	76.17	5.48%
Direct-to-Chip Liquid	8.23	7.00%	62.32	22.44%
Immersion Cooling	3.53	3.00%	34.62	25.66%

By Data Center Type

Data center type	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Commercial Colocation	52.91	45.00%	145.41	10.64%
Hyperscale and Cloud Self-Build	35.27	30.00%	131.56	14.07%
Enterprise and Government	29.39	25.00%	69.24	8.95%

By Rack Density

Rack density	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Below 10 kW per Rack	64.67	55.00%	96.94	4.13%
10 to 30 kW per Rack	43.50	37.00%	152.34	13.35%
Above 30 kW per Rack	9.41	8.00%	96.94	26.27%

Commercial colocation stays the largest owner group at USD 145.41 million in 2035, but hyperscale and cloud self-build grows faster at 14.07% a year because Yandex, Sber and VK build their own free-cooled halls.

DC Exclusive: The Russia Free-Cooling Design Ledger, 7 Sites and PUE 1.12-1.33

DC Market Insights compiled seven Russian data center designs with published cooling methods and PUE values from 1.12 to 1.33; this is a DC Market Insights model built on 7 inputs, one operator statement per site, and it shows that free cooling or adiabatic assist is specified at every site that states its design.

Site	Operator	Capacity	Thermal design	PUE
Largest Yandex data centers	Yandex	Above 60 MW design (Yandex DC)	Year-round direct free cooling, own design	1.12 (2025)
Berzarina, Moscow	Selectel	Not stated	Free cooling, compressors above 12 °C	About 1.20
Dubrovka 3, Leningrad region	Selectel	Not stated	Free cooling plus gas-fired absorption chiller for peaks	About 1.25
MOS11, Veshki, Moscow region	IXcellerate	40 MW, 2,500 racks	Low Speed Ventilation, free cooling, adiabatic pre-cooling	1.33 target
Modular data center blocks	MTS	4 MW per 600 racks	Prefabricated modules	1.15
Fedorovskoye, Leningrad region	MTS	500 racks, 16 MW supplied	Air conditioning with adiabatic cooling	Not stated
Nizhny Novgorod	RTK-DC	401 racks, 5 MW	Tier III design, about 12.5 kW per rack	Not stated

Reading the ledger: at the 1.12-1.33 range, the gap between the best and the target design on a 40 MW hall is about 73.6 GWh of electricity a year (0.21 × 40 MW × 8,760 hours), which is the saving that funds better controls and free-cooling coils. Sources: Yandex, Selectel, IXcellerate, MTS and Rostelecom statements.

Regional Insights: Which Russian Region Spends Most on Data Center Thermal Management?

The Central Federal District leads Russia data center thermal management with USD 84.66 million in 2025 (72.00%), and the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts grow fastest at 20.81% a year to USD 31.16 million by 2035.

Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Central Federal District	84.66	72.00%	207.73	9.39%
Northwestern Federal District	16.46	14.00%	51.93	12.18%
Volga Federal District	7.05	6.00%	31.16	16.01%
Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts	4.70	4.00%	31.16	20.81%
Urals and Southern Federal Districts	4.70	4.00%	24.24	17.82%

Central Federal District

Moscow and Moscow Oblast hold 58% of 2025 spend; IXcellerate’s 130 MW Veshki campus and RTK-DC’s Moscow sites keep the district at 60.00% in 2035, growing 9.39% a year.

Northwestern Federal District

St Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, where Selectel and MTS run free-cooled and adiabatic sites, grow 12.18% a year to USD 51.93 million in 2035.

Volga Federal District

RTK-DC’s 5 MW Nizhny Novgorod site, opened in May 2025 (Source: Rostelecom), and Tatarstan’s data center projects lift the district from 6.00% to 9.00% of spend, a 16.01% CAGR.

Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts

Cold winters and hydro power make Novosibirsk and the Far East the fastest region at 20.81% a year, as MTS modular blocks in Khabarovsk show demand outside the Moscow grid.

Urals and Southern Federal Districts

Yekaterinburg, where RTK-DC has a site in progress (Source: Rostelecom), and southern hubs grow 17.82% a year to USD 24.24 million.

Subject Analysis: Which Russian Cities and Regions Carry the Most Cooling Spend?

Moscow (city) leads Russia data center thermal management spend with USD 35.27 million in 2025, and Novosibirsk Oblast is the fastest of the 12 subjects at 20.81% a year.

Rank	Subject	Federal district	2025 (USD million)	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
1	Moscow	Central Federal District	35.27	76.17	8.00%
2	Moscow Oblast	Central Federal District	32.92	86.55	10.15%
3	St Petersburg	Northwestern Federal District	10.58	31.16	11.40%
4	Leningrad Oblast	Northwestern Federal District	5.88	20.77	13.45%
5	Tver Oblast	Central Federal District	4.70	13.85	11.40%
6	Novosibirsk Oblast	Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts	4.70	31.16	20.81%
7	Sverdlovsk Oblast	Urals and Southern Federal Districts	4.70	24.24	17.82%
8	Kaluga Oblast	Central Federal District	4.12	10.39	9.70%
9	Vladimir Oblast	Central Federal District	4.12	12.12	11.40%
10	Ryazan Oblast	Central Federal District	3.53	8.66	9.39%
11	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Volga Federal District	3.53	15.58	16.01%
12	Republic of Tatarstan	Volga Federal District	3.53	15.58	16.01%

Forecast Scenarios: How Could the Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market Look in 2035?

DC Market Insights puts the 2035 Russia data center thermal management market between USD 270.05 million and USD 429.31 million, with USD 346.22 million in the base case.

Scenario	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035	Assumption from 2027
Low	270.05	8.67%	Completions 22% below base as grid limits and physical risk delay projects; slower liquid adoption
Base	346.22	11.40%	Completions rise from 95 MW (2026) to 185 MW (2035)
High	429.31	13.83%	Completions 24% above base with scaled domestic immersion production and regional campuses

Key Players and Market Share: Who Supplies Data Center Cooling in Russia After the Western Exits?

DC Market Insights estimates that the top five thermal equipment suppliers held about 50% of 2025 Russia data center thermal management equipment spend, with Systeme Electric, the former Schneider Electric Russia business, the leader at about 15%; buyer concentration is higher, with RTK-DC alone at about 21.8% of installed IT load.

• Systeme Electric: successor of Schneider Electric Russia after the 2022 sale to local management (Source: Schneider Electric)
• Yandex: in-house free-cooling design, PUE 1.12 in 2025
• RTK-DC (Rostelecom): 27,637 racks, 235 MW, 26 Tier III sites
• IXcellerate: Veshki campus, 130 MW and 7,500 racks
• Selectel: free-cooled Moscow and Leningrad region sites, revenue RUB 18.3 billion in 2025
• MTS: modular data centers with PUE 1.15
• Cloud.ru (Sber): new Moscow-region data center under construction in 2026
• VK Tech: revenue RUB 18.8 billion in 2025, up 38%
• Envicool: Chinese precision-cooling maker with data center cooling revenue of CNY 3.448 billion in 2025
• Huawei: modular data center and cooling products
• Delta Electronics: in-row cooling sold in Russian-language catalogues
• Dantex: precision air conditioners in its 2025 range
• Stulz: precision cooling still offered through Russian distributors
• Daikin: products sold through local distributors after its 2022 suspension

DC Market Insights estimates that RTK-DC, Yandex, IXcellerate, Sber and Selectel ordered about 45% of 2025 thermal equipment by value.

Recent Developments: Which Russian Data Center Cooling Events Mattered From May 2025?

Russia data center thermal management saw 6 dated events between May 2025 and October 2026, including 135 MW of announced or commissioned capacity at Nizhny Novgorod and Veshki.

• In May 2025, RTK-DC commissioned its Nizhny Novgorod data center with 401 racks and 5 MW (Source: Rostelecom).
• In November 2025, IXcellerate launched its 130 MW Veshki campus with free cooling and adiabatic pre-cooling (Source: IXcellerate).
• In May 2026, RTK-DC reported a doubled base of 27,637 racks after more than RUB 38 billion of investment (Source: Rostelecom).
• In June 2026, Yandex reported a PUE of 1.12 for its largest data centers in 2025 (Source: Yandex).
• In October 2026, Yandex said drone attacks damaged its Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir data centers (Source: Yandex).
• In October 2026, a presidential instruction asked for scaled-up Russian production of immersion cooling systems, report due 1 December 2026 (Source: Kremlin list of instructions).

Methodology: How the Model Values the Russia Data Center Thermal Management Market

DC Market Insights built the USD 117.58 million (2025) figure bottom-up from 16 yearly capacity cohorts, 4 component prices, 5 federal-district groups and 12 subjects.

• Receipt: 80 MW new IT × USD 0.90 million per MW (cooling equipment 0.80, containment 0.06, sensors and controls 0.04) = USD 72.00 million; 1,013 MW installed at the start of 2025 × USD 45 thousand per MW (service 32, software 8, engineering 5) = USD 45.58 million.
• Floor: IXcellerate’s 2,000 racks a year at 12 kW (24 MW) plus RTK-DC’s 1,400 racks at 8.45 kW (11.8 MW) give 35.8 MW, 45% of the 80 MW modelled for 2025, from two operators alone.
• Ceiling 1: USD 137.47 million in 2026 is 0.33% of the USD 42.27 billion global data center thermal management market, below Russia’s share of global data center capacity because free cooling lowers content per MW.
• Ceiling 2: RTK-DC’s 235 MW is 21.8% of the 1,078 MW installed base, consistent with its position as the largest commercial operator.

Every segment, region and subject table sums to the national total in 2025 and 2035; CAGRs are recomputed from endpoints. The full method is on the research methodology page, and the related demand picture is in the Russia AI Data Center Market and Russia Data Center Infrastructure Market reports.