GoKawiilPutin orders Russian data centers to reserve 10% capacity for state use
President Vladimir Putin has directed non-state-owned data centers across Russia to set aside 10% of their capacity for state IT infrastructure, to be released on 24 hours' notice via a new government commission. The order follows Ukrainian drone strikes that damaged Russia's largest data center and the finance ministry's facility, disrupting services like Yandex Mail and tax databases.
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The move suggests Russian state services are vulnerable enough to drone and cyberattacks that officials want guaranteed backup compute readily available. Mandating private capacity reserves could strain commercial data center operators and signals the Kremlin's growing concern over digital infrastructure resilience amid the war.
- Russian data centers must reserve 10% of capacity for state use within 24 hours of a government order.
- The directive follows drone attacks on Russia's largest data center and its finance ministry's facility.
- A separate cyberattack reportedly stole 23TB of data from Russia's statistics service servers.
Source: tomshardware.com — Oliver Haslam, 2026-11-02
Published there as: “Putin demands Russian data centers supply capacity to the state in wake of Ukraine drone attacks”
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