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PaaSPort: Bringing MOD’s Global Infrastructure Services Into One Platform

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Traditional digital infrastructure deployment often forces organizations to stitch together a patchwork of separate vendors for colocation, connectivity, bare metal, and cloud access. Managing these isolated services introduces vendor sprawl, multiple contracts, tracking separate SLAs, and coordinating complex escalation paths during outages. To solve these operational challenges, MOD Mission Critical developed PaaSPort, a unified platform designed to bring global infrastructure capabilities together under a single ecosystem. Building on capabilities developed since 2011, MOD enables businesses to explore, compare, and price global infrastructure options through a single partner.

The PaaSPort platform provides access to a comprehensive suite of infrastructure services across six continents. Organizations can deploy on-demand physical bare metal hardware, vendor-agnostic colocation procurement, and IP transit scaling from GigE to 10G. Additionally, the platform covers virtual hosting, dedicated hosting, IPv4 services, managed proxy, and network monitoring. By offering an open ecosystem for both customers and infrastructure suppliers, the platform streamlines multi-market sourcing into a single procurement framework.

Simplifying distributed infrastructure management is increasingly vital as enterprise edge deployments expand worldwide. Industry projections indicate that over 60 percent of enterprises globally will adopt unified edge frameworks by 2027 to control operational complexity. Furthermore, the global edge computing market is projected to surge from approximately $84 billion today to over $1.5 trillion by 2035. As infrastructure requirements grow across global markets, unified sourcing platforms help organizations scale their footprints without accumulating administrative friction.

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Sesterce to invest $10bn in 600MW AI data center campus in Jämsä, Finland

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Developer says it has already secured an anchor customer for the site

French AI and supercomputing infrastructure company Sesterce has announced plans for a $10 billion AI data center campus in Jämsä, Finland.

Work on the project, which is to be built on the site of the former Kaipola paper mill, will begin this year. Sesterce said the campus will have a capacity of 200MW during its first phase, with an expected increase to 600MW in phase two.

The company said it aims to build more than 1GW of capacity in Finland long term.

In a statement announcing the project, Sesterce committed to “enabling” a megawatt of newly built renewable generation capacity on the Finnish power grid for every megawatt the campus consumes within 10 years of the campus becoming operational.

Alongside the renewable energy commitment, Sesterce said the site will feature a closed-loop liquid cooling system, which will be supplemented with harvested rainwater and recycled water. The company will also establish a $10 million community fund to finance local projects in Jämsä.

According to Sesterce’s statement, the company has already secured an anchor customer for the site.

"For more than six decades, the Kaipola mill produced paper for the world. Now, a new generation of industry is being planned for the site. Our goal is to preserve the area's industrial identity while making use of existing infrastructure, including the power grid, water systems, buildings, and logistics connections," said Youssef El Manssouri, CEO of Sesterce.

"Our planning is based on energy-efficient and flexible operations. The Sesterce Campus projects will use liquid cooling, deliver high energy efficiency, and feature controllable and flexible power consumption. Opportunities for utilizing waste heat are also being considered as part of the design.”

Jori Reijula, Mayor of Jämsä, added: “Jämsä needs new investments, business activity and jobs.

“The Sesterce project is an interesting opportunity to strengthen the vitality of the region, provided it progresses from plans to implementation and meets the applicable requirements. The redevelopment of the Kaipola site would be a welcome opportunity to give the area a new lease on life and support job creation in Jämsä. The City wants to advance investment projects in cooperation with businesses and will assess each project carefully as it moves forward.”

Last year, Sesterce announced a $471m investment to develop an AI data center in Valence, France.

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Yandex data center hit in drone attack in Russia

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Data center in Ryazan Oblast struck in drone attack

A Yandex data center has been hit by a drone strike in Russia.

As reported by Kyiv Independent, the data center in question was the Yandex DC Sasovo, located in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, as identified by Ukrainian and Russian OSINT specialists Exilenova+ and ASTRA, and is Yandex's largest data center facility.

Yandex Cloud's status dashboard currently notes that it is suffering from a power outage at its ru-central-b availability zone. Disruptions began at 1:31am local time and are ongoing.

The data center is located at the Sasta production complex, which includes machinery and assembly workshops, R&D facilities, a foundry, and serves the Russian defence industry, among others.

Yandex said that the strike caused a fire at the data center, forcing it to cease operations.

This is the first major data center to be taken down in Russia during the conflict with Ukraine, but several data centers in Ukraine have been struck throughout, including multiple in just the last few weeks.

Facilities operated by Parkovyi Data Center, MiroHost, Datagroup, Vodafone Ukraine, De Novo, Cosmonova, Omega Telecom, and Ukrtelecom have all suffered damage from drones, though it is not known whether these data centers are all separate locations, or whether any of the companies were using shared facilities.

Yandex currently operates five large data centers in Russia located in Vladimir, Sasovo, Ivanteevka, Mytishchi, and in Kaluga Oblast around 200 miles (322 kms) south of Moscow. In April 2025, the company's Moscow cloud region suffered an outage after an incident with the supporting substation.

Yandex – which has been referred to colloquially as "Russia's Google" – was previously owned by a holding company based in the Netherlands, but separated its European and Russian operations, fully divesting Yandex from the company in February 2024 as part of a strategic move following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The European company is now known as Nebius, a neocloud.