Yandex engineering reported power failures in the ru-central1-b zone, affecting search, map, and taxi services. The aerial campaign also targeted the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan and follows a series of Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. The loss of the pre-sanction GPU clusters limits the tech giant's capacity to train large-scale AI models.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Ukraine Drone Strike Destroys 2,700 Nvidia GPUs at Yandex Data Center
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Outages across Russia's most dominant internet provider surged Thursday following a fire that crippled a critical computing hub in Sasovo. The 35+ MW facility, one of the largest in the country, reportedly housed nearly 2,700 Nvidia A100 GPUs imported before sanctions locked down the nation's tech sector. Ukrainian drones struck the site on Wednesday night, which is colocated with the Sasta machine-tool plant, a manufacturer supplying equipment to Russia's defense industry.
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