Second strike hits Yandex's largest Kaluga data center
1 Oct 9 10:20 AM · 5d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 9 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
A UAV attack struck Yandex's flagship data center in Kaluga's Grabtsevo industrial park, completely taking out several modules. The facility, opened in late 2023, is Russia's largest Yandex data center with 130,000 square meters, 63 megawatt capacity, and over 3,800 server racks designed to support internal services and Yandex Cloud.
“Several modules of the Yandex data center in Kaluga have been completely taken out of operation as a result of a UAV attack, the company reports.”
TASSYandex Russian technology companyUkraine Attacking actorTASS Russian state media
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first by HN Best, 5d ago · also UNITED24 Media, HN Frontpage
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- Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours—Now Its Biggest Russian Site Is Damaged UNITED24 Media · 5d ago
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USA provides extensive engineering support and technology transfer for Ukraine's domestic development of long-range missiles. Basically everything short of just giving them Tomahawks. Ukraine's defense industry capabilities didn't develop so rapidly for no reason.And the quality of targeting is almost entirely because of extensive USA intelligence…
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Russia: Body blows being successfully blocked for the most part Ukraine: Punches the spine
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The Internet is almost 100% packet switching, a technique that someone brilliant in ARPA came up with the idea of claiming it was intended for nuclear warfare survival, in order to ensure funding.“Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized. There’s an economy of scale of course, both in the building itself and in very local transmission. But all…
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Should we call it "Yandex experiment" from now on? Because it seems like the experiment didn't go well:April 27, 2020:"Yandex highlighted negative articles about Navalny in its search results; the company called it an "experiment."
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From reddit - "Right now, Yandex's biggest services are down: taxis, delivery, and Alisa. Moscow is paralyzed; it's impossible to order a taxi. Orders aren't going through."
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"United24Media" is mostly just Ukrainian military propaganda. I wouldn't trust it given some of their other articles.Here's a better source:
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If you gear up with a translator, you may read this in-depth post on the events made by well-known Ukrainian tech executive Sergiy Petrenko, who also happened to be the CEO of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex in its early days:
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American and European data center providers should start thinking about design for resiliency versus drone and missile strikes.
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That's one of the reasons that ecologist push-back against "technologists" who say "just build nuclear reactors everywhere"...we want a safe a decentralized infrastructure
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The Yandex of today isn't exactly the Yandex of 2020. The people who were at the helm back then whitewashed their reputations, renamed to Nebius, and are now supplying compute to Palantir.
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Interesting to see this and the targeting of data centers in the Middle East. Its critical infrastructure and a hit gets the attacker a lot of bang for the buck in terms of economic damage.
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What you even talking about ? What this have to do with Navalny ? (self sacrificing activist populist on the USAID payroll with an agenda dictated from Yale)
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Damn, this would have been a good argument for the US to fund Ukrainian long-distance operations, had Russia not been so far behind in the AI race already.
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Seems like a mistake to stagger these hits, doing both in the same hour could have taken out backups before they had a chance to replicate elsewhere.
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Is Kagi search still relying on Yandex?A second data centre has been attacked and I've seen reports of Yandex crawlers stopping their work.
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Don't worry - this could never happen to your cloud provider.It's a totally different situation - they're at war.
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Not just data centers. Europe is close enough to need an all-encompassing national strategy against this.
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How effective are the western embargos? Will it be possible for them to replace destroyed hardware?
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