Ukrainian Drones Launch Consecutive Attacks on Yandex Data Center
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According to Ars Technica, Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in Kaluga Oblast and Vladimir Oblast on October 9 and October 11, respectively. The Vladimir data center hosted Galushkin, one of Yandex's three supercomputers, which ranked 134th on the Top500 list with 20.64 petaflops of compute. The attacks caused widespread disruption of Russian digital services. The situation is still developing; Yandex or Russian authorities have not yet given detailed responses on the extent of damage or recovery timelines.
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- Ars Technica · AIRussia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in Kaluga and Vladimir regions on October 9 and October 11, with the latter hosting Galushkin, one of its three supercomputers (ranked 134 on the Top500 with 20.64 petaflops), causing widespread disruption to Russian digital services.
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