Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Ars TechnicaOct 9, 2026Oct 9, 2026, 6:04 PM AST

Data centers are buildings full of servers that many online services depend on, and the war in Ukraine has turned them into targets on both sides. Ukrainian drones damaged two of Yandex's five data centers, including a site that houses two of the three supercomputers used to train its YandexGPT AI model, and Russian users saw streaming, banking and railway apps disrupted.

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