Russia’s Yandex says data center in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack
Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday, October 11, that its infrastructure had been damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region.
No one was injured in the attack, but some of Yandex’s services were unavailable to users, the company said. Yandex added it was gradually restoring access to its services following the drone attack.
This is the third major data center to have been taken out of action in the last few days.
On Friday, Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia’s AI development and is sometimes called “Russia’s Google”, said its data center in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow had been struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of action.
A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down Yandex’s data hub in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company’s AI model are housed. – Rappler.com
