Ukrainian drones strike the AI data center of Russia's Google
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
What happened
Ukrainian drones struck an AI data center belonging to Yandex, often described as Russia's Google, according to Reuters, with affected services also including a dating app, a real estate aggregator, a self-publishing book platform, and the website of the most successful professional football club in the Russian Premier League. The article notes that the strike on the data center is the latest example of data centers becoming wartime targets in 2026, after Iranian drones crippled multiple Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the UAE following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran in February.
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