Russia's Yandex was attacked by Ukrainian drones again, and the data center was shut down

Russian technology giant Yandex shut down another large data center after being attacked by Ukraine on the 11th. The picture shows the company's data center in Sasovo state catching fire and smoking after being attacked on the 8th. (Reuters)

[Compiled by Zhang Peiyuan/Comprehensive Report] Russian technology and artificial intelligence (AI) company Yandex said on the 11th that its infrastructure was damaged by a drone attack, causing its data center in Vladimir region to shut down.

Yandex said the attack caused no casualties, but the company is currently unable to provide some services to users.

This is the third large Yandex data center to be shut down due to attacks in the past few days.

Yandex, which is actively involved in Russian AI research and development and is known as the "Russian version of Google", said on the 9th that its data center in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, was attacked by Ukrainian drones and was partially shut down.

The day before, the Yandex data center in Sasovo region, southeast of Moscow, was also shut down after being attacked by Ukraine. This data center houses two of the three supercomputers used by Yandex to develop AI models.