Ukraine Knocks Out 2 of 5 Yandex Data Centers as Russia’s Google Struggles to Keep Services Online
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Updated · Ars Technica · Oct 9
Ukraine Knocks Out 2 of 5 Yandex Data Centers as Russia’s Google Struggles to Keep Services Online
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Oct 9
Summary
Two Ukrainian drone strikes on October 8 and 9 disabled Yandex facilities in Sasovo and Kaluga, leaving the Russian tech group scrambling to sustain YandexGPT and other online services.
Ukraine cast the attacks as a direct response to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers since late September that have disrupted mobile and internet access for thousands.
Kaluga is Yandex’s largest data center, while the earlier Sasovo hit knocked out a site housing two of the company’s three supercomputers used to train its AI model.
Yandex said no employees were hurt, but Russian users reported outages affecting media sites and apps including Ivi, T-Bank and Russian Railways.