Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drones Get Squeezed by AI Data Center Demand
- Russian companies increasingly sought foreign data center capacity in Kazakhstan and Belarus on November 10, after recent Ukrainian drone strikes threatened domestic infrastructure, Kommersant reported.
- Between October 8 and October 18, Ukrainian drone attacks struck Yandex, Sberbank, and Federal Tax Service data centers across six regions in European Russia, forcing businesses to treat infrastructure risks as real operational concerns.
- Available cloud resources inside Russia are nearly 90% occupied, with Moscow holding only around 50 megawatts of remaining capacity, prompting firms to seek backups in so-called "friendly" countries, said ITGlobal.com Vice President Yevgeny Svidersky.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on November 2 requiring private data centers to reserve 10% of their capacity for state use, requisitionable within 24 hours, according to Astra.
- These strikes threaten Russia's AI development and military technology programs, which depend on civilian computing resources including Yandex and Sberbank facilities, according to Samuel Bendett at the Center for a New American Security and Center for Naval Analyses.
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Within hours of the attack, there were claims that the Ukrainian strikes had achieved what years of efforts to combat disinformation had failed to do - they shut down Russian propaganda bots.
At the same time, the researchers do not argue that it was the shocks that caused the decline: other factors could have influenced the dynamics.
Russian companies are increasingly looking abroad for data storage capacity due to Ukrainian attacks on data centers. The strikes are also slowing down Russia's development of artificial intelligence and military technologies.
Russians are complaining about the voice assistant from technology company Yandex, which has become "stupid, stutters, has a bad accent, makes mistakes, is more irritable, freezes or doesn't respond at all" after Ukrainian attacks on the company's data centers, The Moscow Times reported on Tuesday.
The U.S.U.S. hit three of the six dates center.
Russian technology company Yandex has reported that access has been restored to 97.16% of customer data on its cloud service, Yandex Cloud, following damage to its data centers in drone attacks.
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