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Ukrainian drone strikes hit Yandex data centers, impacting AI services · 2 sources tracked

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Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted three Yandex data centers over four days, disrupting over 80 cloud services and impacting YandexGPT. The affected facilities house Yandex's AI training supercomputers, and the timeline for recovery remains uncertain. Connectivity has fallen to 30% of normal levels, with users awaiting access to funds and network services. AI

IMPACT Disruption to Yandex's AI training infrastructure and services like YandexGPT could slow down AI development and deployment in the region.

RANK_REASON Significant disruption to a major tech company's infrastructure due to geopolitical conflict.

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Ukrainian drone strikes hit Yandex data centers, impacting AI services · 2 sources tracked

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Significant disruption to a major tech company's infrastructure due to geopolitical conflict.
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COVERAGE [2]

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

    Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline

    Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · schuler ·

    Drone strikes have now hit three Yandex data centers in four days, taking 80+ cloud services offline including YandexGPT. The two struck sites house all three o

    Drone strikes have now hit three Yandex data centers in four days, taking 80+ cloud services offline including YandexGPT. The two struck sites house all three of Yandex's AI training supercomputers. Recovery timeline unclear. https://www. implicator.ai/yandex-shuts-thi rd-data-ce…

    LINKS implicator.ai/yandex-shuts-third-data-cen…

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