Putin Orders 10% Data Center Capacity Reserved After Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Cloud Sites
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Updated · Ars Technica · Nov 3
Putin Orders 10% Data Center Capacity Reserved After Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Cloud Sites
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Nov 3
Summary
A Nov. 2 Kremlin decree orders Russian data center operators to reserve 10% of space and computing capacity for emergency state use, with possible recourse to foreign facilities.
Ukrainian drone strikes drove the move by damaging Russian sites housing AI supercomputers and disrupting cloud services for millions of users, according to the report.
Yandex, Sberbank, VKontakte and the Russian Finance Ministry were among operators whose data centers were degraded or knocked out by the attacks.
Rostelecom is discussing underground data centers with Norilsk, while another proposal would place facilities in open-pit coal mines and hide them under public parks.
The scramble underscores how the war has expanded into digital infrastructure, after Russia also targeted Ukrainian data centers in recent weeks.