Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain its AI chatbot and other online services. The Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions of Russia on October 8 and October 9, according to Reuters. Those actions came as a direct response to a Russian drone strike c
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Ukrainian drones struck two data centers belonging to Yandex, a Russian tech company known as "Russia's Google" that operates the country's most popular search engine. The attacks damaged facilities housing supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI model and disrupted various Russian online services including video streaming, banking, and transportation platforms. Ukraine described the strikes as a proportional response to Russian drone campaigns that have been targeting Ukraine's data centers since late September. Data centers have increasingly become military targets in conflicts, with examples including strikes during tensions between the United States, Israel, and Iran earlier in the year.
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