Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
Companies are seeking backup sites as drone strikes and a 90% occupancy rate tighten Russia’s data-center market, industry sources said.
- 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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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.
Russian companies seek foreign data center capacity after Ukrainian strikes
Ukraine's strikes added pressure to an already strained domestic data center market, where available cloud resources are nearly 90% occupied, according to Russian state-controlled media Kommersant.
Ukrainian data centres, fearing new attacks by the Russian Federation, have begun to transfer their capacities to the western regions of the country and abroad; according to the enemy ' s resources, there are currently between 30 and 50 data centres in Ukraine, most of which are coordinated in Kiev.
Ukrainian data centers began to move their capacities to the west of the country and abroad due to Russian attacks, Ekonomicheskaya Pravda writes:
Ukrainian data centers began to move their capacities to the west of the country and abroad due to Russian attacks, Ekonomicheskaya Pravda writes:There are from 30 to 50 data centers in Ukraine, most of which are coordinated in Kiev.;Since...
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Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.
Because of serious infrastructure damage, Ukrainian companies have begun to transfer their data-processing systems avalanche to the western regions of the country and the European Union, writing local media. For security reasons, Ukrainian entrepreneurs have started to transport their data centres to the western regions of the country and abroad, and have transferred TASS with reference to the publication Economic Truth. Various estimates indica…
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