Yandex removes supercomputers from data centers after drone attacks

Supercomputers relocated to new sites

Yandex has moved its supercomputers out of data centers that had come under drone strikes and launched them at new sites. According to Kun.uz, citing RBC, the machines in question are Lyapunov, Galushkin and Chervonenkis. According to the company, the supercomputers themselves were not damaged during the drone attacks on the data processing and storage centers.

What happened and how the company responded

“By now they have been removed from the locations where they were kept and are currently being launched at new computing sites. The supercomputers will, as before, continue to be used as infrastructure for Yandex’s services, as well as for training foundational language models,” the company said.

The October attacks and their consequences

In October, Yandex data centers were hit by drones three times: the attacks targeted facilities in the town of Sasovo in Ryazan Region, as well as in Kaluga and Vladimir. The outages affected not only the company’s cloud services but also other systems, including government ones. In addition, disruptions were also observed in the company’s services in Uzbekistan. An editorial takeaway from these facts: the relocation of the supercomputers shows that the physical vulnerability of data centers directly affects the availability of digital services, including those used by people outside Russia, in particular in Uzbekistan.