Two Yandex data centers reportedly disabled after Ukrainian drone strikes
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Two Yandex datacenters reportedly were disabled by Ukrainian drone strikes. The affected infrastructure includes YandexGPT training equipment, and some online services were also disrupted.
Strikes on facilities in Sasovo and Kaluga
According to Ars Technica, strikes hit Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions on October 8 and 9. The report says the Sasovo facility houses two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used to train YandexGPT. Yandex acknowledged disruptions to some services and said no employees were hurt; the report also cited Russian users describing access problems with several online services.
The available report does not provide a directly comparable before-state for Yandex’s data-center capacity or service availability.
Ars Technica reports that Ukrainian drone strikes on October 8 and 9 disabled two of Yandex’s five data centers, including a facility housing supercomputers used to train YandexGPT.
The reported strikes place AI-training infrastructure among the affected targets and link data-center damage with disruption to consumer-facing online services.
Sources
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