Ukrainian drone strikes disable Yandex data centers and AI supercomputers
The strikes highlight how critical digital infrastructure has become a direct target in modern conflicts, impacting major commercial and AI services.
• Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out two Yandex data centers in Russia on October 8 and October 9.
• The damaged facilities included supercomputers used to train the YandexGPT AI model and disrupted various Russian web services.
• The strikes were a symmetrical response to Russian drone attacks targeting data centers in Ukraine since late September.
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