FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russian technology giant Yandex is on display at the company's headquarters in Moscow, Russia 9 December 2022;
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - On Thursday 8 October 2026, drones hit a major data centre in Russia's Ryazan region owned by the country's leading AI and technology company Yandex, the company said.
It added that the attack caused a fire and forced the company to fully suspend the centre's operations. Yandex said it was dealing with the consequences and restoring affected services.
The company said that its core consumer services were not affected. Yandex runs YandexGPT, one of Russia's leading generative AI models.
The attack on the Yandex data centre followed a wave of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres in recent weeks. Previously, there had been no confirmed major Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian data centres.
On the website of its Yandex Cloud service, the company said there were problems with the electricity supply at one data centre "zone", and recommended that customers use other zones.
