Ukraine Strikes Second Data Center of Russia's 'Google' In Two Days
Several data center modules were completely out of service because of the strike, Yandex told Newsweek.
A drone attack disabled a second Yandex data center in Russia within two days, potentially causing disruptions to the company's services. The strike occurred in Kaluga, a region southwest of Moscow, and resulted in several data center modules being out of service. Yandex is Russia's leading technology company and runs YandexGPT, a popular generative AI model.
The attacks may signal a new front in the war following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. One Russian military blogger claimed Russia was unprepared for a "data center war." Yandex stated that no one was injured in the Kaluga attack, and emergency services and company specialists were on site. The incidents follow a drone attack on a Yandex facility in Ryazan, southeast of Moscow, on Thursday.
The strikes come after Russia targeted Ukrainian data centers and internet exchanges in Kyiv last month, causing outages and compelling some firms to relocate data to foreign facilities.
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