Yandex data center in Russia’s Vladimir region shuts down after drone attack
Photo: Yandex headquarters in Moscow (Getty Images)
A Yandex data center in Russia’s Vladimir region shut down following a drone attack on October 11. It is the third company facility reported damaged in the space of several days, Reuters reports.
The company said the attack damaged the infrastructure of its data center in the Vladimir region. The facility was completely shut down. According to Yandex, no one was injured, but the incident temporarily disrupted some of the company’s services.
Yandex is one of Russia’s largest technology companies and is actively expanding its artificial intelligence business. It is often compared to Google because of its wide range of search and other digital services.
What other Yandex data centers have been hit
The report of the incident in the Vladimir region came after two previous attacks on the company’s infrastructure.
On Friday, October 9, Yandex reported that its data center in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, had been hit by Ukrainian drones and partially knocked out of service.
A day earlier, on October 8, a Ukrainian strike knocked out the company’s data center in the city of Sasovo, southeast of Moscow.
The facility is particularly important for the company’s artificial intelligence development: it houses two of the three supercomputers used to develop AI models.
