GoKawiilDrone strike disables modules at Yandex's Kaluga data center
Russian state media TASS reported on October 9 that a drone attack hit Yandex's data center in Kaluga's Grabtsevo industrial park, completely disabling several of its modules. The facility, Yandex's largest in Russia, spans about 130,000 square meters with a planned 63-megawatt capacity and over 3,800 server racks. This comes just two days after satellite imagery showed damage from a separate drone strike on another Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region.
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Two strikes on Yandex infrastructure within 48 hours suggest Ukrainian forces may be deliberately targeting Russian digital infrastructure that supports both commercial and potentially state-linked services. The Kaluga facility's role in expanding Yandex Cloud means the disruption could affect business and government cloud operations beyond Yandex's own internal services, though the extent of service impact has not been detailed.
- Yandex's Kaluga data center, its largest in Russia, had several modules disabled by a drone strike on October 9.
- The facility was central to expanding Yandex Cloud's fourth availability zone.
- This marks the second drone strike on Yandex data center infrastructure within 48 hours, following an earlier attack in Sasovo.
Source: united24media.com — News Writer, 2026-10-09
Published there as: “Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours”
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