Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Summary
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions, disrupting services and affecting the company’s AI capabilities. Reuters reports these strikes as a response to Russian attacks on Ukraine’s data centers, with Firepoint FP-1 drones involved in Kaluga and Sasovo housing supercomputers used to train YandexGPT. The piece frames these incidents within a broader pattern of wartime targeting of critical IT infrastructure.