New Data Center to Help Expand Northwest ICT Infrastructures

In line with plans to develop the country’s information and communication technologies infrastructures, ICT Ministry has launched a data center in East Azarbaijan Province in northwest Iran.
During a videoconference in Tehran on Sunday, the data center was inaugurated by ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, who was accompanied by Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the Iranian Parliament speaker, Abolhassan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran's High Council of Cyberspace, and a number of officials from Mobile Telecommunications Company of Iran (MCI), Peivast reported.
The data center has been established at a cost of 3.5 trillion rials ($17.2 million) by MCI in a three-story building with a total area of 3,000 square meters.