{
  "id": 13098152,
  "title": "Russian AI Giant Yandex Hit By Second Drone Strike In Two Days As Data Centres Become Big Targets In War",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/russian-ai-giant-yandex-hit-by-second-drone-strike-in-two-days-as",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T10:36:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/russian-ai-giant-yandex-hit-by-second-drone-strike-in-two-days-as-data-centres-become-big-targets-in-war"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Russian AI company Yandex suffered a second drone strike in two days, disabling several modules at its data center in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow. The strike, reported by Reuters, caused significant damage to the facility, with some services potentially disrupted. Yandex warned that no one was injured but cautioned that customers of Yandex Cloud might experience electricity supply issues. The company has not disclosed when the site might resume normal operations. The Sasovo data center, one of Yandex's five major facilities, houses two of the three supercomputers used to develop Yandex's AI model, YandexGPT, which relies on Nvidia A100 chips. Following the attack, various online services, including real estate aggregator Cian, book portal Litmarket, Russian Railways website, and football club Spartak Moscow's site, reported service disruptions. Monitoring service Detector404 logged 58,268 user complaints in a single day. The incident highlights the growing vulnerability of data centers as high-value targets in the ongoing conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the attacks, stating that Russia has been hitting and continues to attack Ukrainian data centers, while Russia has been hardening its own infrastructure against drone strikes.",
  "summary": "Russian technology and AI company Yandex said that several modules at its data centre in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, were completely disabled by a drone attack. It is the company's second data centre strike in two days, according to Reuters. Yandex said no one was injured but warned that some of its services may be disrupted. The Second Strike: Kaluga Yandex wrote on X that \"part of…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}