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Reported drone strikes on Yandex data centers
News Oct 10, 2026
Ars Technica reports damage and service disruption at Yandex facilities, including a site housing AI-training supercomputers.
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Ars Technica reported that Ukrainian drone strikes hit Yandex data centers in Russia’s Sasovo and Kaluga regions on October 8 and 9. Its English-language account says the Sasovo facility houses two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used to train YandexGPT. The report connects AI infrastructure to wartime disruption, but does not provide an independently audited estimate of lost training capacity or a restoration schedule.