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Lots of companies have disaster recovery data centers located far from their headquarters, but Estonia is the first government to build an off-site data center in another country. The small Baltic nation will make backup copies of its critical data infrastructure and store them in Luxembourg if agreements between the two countries are reached.

The idea is that Estonia could continue operating outside its borders in the event of a war or natural disaster. Officials from Luxembourg will be barred from accessing the Estonian data, just like they would be restricted from entering another country’s embassy. “In a digital world, we have to put aside old concepts of nations’ borders,” said Gilles Feith, the head of the Luxembourg government’s IT activities, according to DW.

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Luxembourg is to host the first 'data embassy' on its territory, planning to store sensitive data for the Estonian government on servers in the Grand Duchy.

According to the 'Data Embassy Initiative' published by the Baltic state's Economy Ministry, Estonia, which is "highly dependent" on information technology, is transforming ''into a country without borders'''.

It says that, in light of ''cyber-attacks, natural disasters and other national or internal emergencies (…) the Data Embassy Initiative emerged as a possible answer, with a data embassy being defined as a physical or virtual data centre in an allied foreign country that stores data of critical government information systems and mirrors of critical service applications''.

Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, during an official visit to Tallinn in March, cited the 'data embassy' initiative as a concrete example for both countries' cooperation in the ICT sector.

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