TechRussia was unprepared for the data center war it began with Ukraine

Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three major Yandex data centers in Russia within days, causing widespread digital-service outages. Pro-Kremlin bloggers warned that Russia’s centralized digital economy could collapse and suggested Ukraine’s decentralized services may be more resilient. Russia had begun attacking Ukrainian data centers and telecommunications infrastructure in late September.

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