INSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF DATA CENTERS IN UKRAINE’S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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The article explores the institutional role of data centers as a strategic component of Ukraine’s digital transformation, which determines its innovative potential, economic resilience, and capacity for digital modernization. It demonstrates that data centers are a key element of modern digital infrastructure, ensuring the continuity of government services, financial systems, and e-commerce, while providing the foundation for the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies. Based on the analysis of global trends and international experience, the author identifies their impact on economic competitiveness and their role in safeguarding the state’s digital sovereignty. The current state of Ukrainian data centers, their regulatory framework, and compliance with international standards are characterized. The study highlights the main challenges of the sector, including an imperfect legislative base, high energy dependence, insufficient cyber resilience, workforce shortages, and limited transparency for investors. The author examines various economic aspects of using data center services for small and medium-sized businesses, showing how they enable cost optimization and operational scalability. The article substantiates key directions for addressing these challenges: harmonization of Ukrainian legislation with European regulations, development of cloud services and multi‑cloud models, implementation of innovative energy efficiency and cooling technologies, creation of GPU clusters to support artificial intelligence systems, enhancement of cybersecurity, and expansion of DevOps training programs. The implementation of these measures will foster the development of a modern and competitive digital infrastructure, strengthen Ukraine’s digital sovereignty, attract investment, and facilitate the integration of its economy into the European digital space.

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