Yandex Halts Key Data Center After Drone Strike, Disrupting Some Services in Ryazan
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Updated · CNBC · Oct 8
Yandex Halts Key Data Center After Drone Strike, Disrupting Some Services in Ryazan
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Oct 8
Summary
Yandex shut down its Sasovo data center in Russia's Ryazan region after a drone strike sparked a fire, saying part of its infrastructure was hit and some services may become unavailable.
The company said the facility has stopped operating entirely, though no casualties were reported and emergency crews were working at the site.
The outage hits a core asset for Moscow-based Yandex, Russia's dominant search provider and developer of the YandexGPT generative AI model.
The strike fits a broader Ukrainian campaign against Russian infrastructure that has recently expanded from oil refineries to consumer and logistics targets, even as Kyiv did not claim responsibility for this attack.