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Ukrainian drones strike major Russian Yandex data center

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Ukrainian drones have targeted and damaged a large Yandex data center in Kaluga, Russia, causing significant outages. This incident follows a similar strike on another Yandex facility two days prior. The Kaluga data center, one of Russia's largest and recently operational, houses numerous server racks and supports Yandex's cloud services, potentially impacting various Yandex applications. AI

IMPACT Disruptions to cloud services and data infrastructure can impact AI development and deployment reliant on these resources.

RANK_REASON Attack on critical infrastructure by a state actor. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.4]

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Ukrainian drones strike major Russian Yandex data center

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Oliver Haslam ·

    Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline

    Following a Ukrainian drone strike on a D.C. in Sasovo, Russia, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has suffered a similar fate with multiple modules completely out of service.

  2. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter

    Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex

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