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Russia's Yandex says unclear whether data centre can be restored after drone strike

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Yandex, the Russian search engine giant, is still assessing the extent of damage to its Sasovo data center after a drone strike, which caused a fire and forced the company to suspend operations. The scale of the damage is unclear, and Yandex cannot confirm whether the data center equipment can be restored. Two of Yandex's three supercomputers are housed there, but the impact on them is not yet known.

Key points

  • Yandex's data center, hit by a drone strike, is still assessing the extent of damage.: Yandex's data center, hit by a drone strike, is still assessing the extent of damage.
  • The incident caused a fire and forced Yandex to suspend operations.: The incident caused a fire and forced Yandex to suspend operations.
  • Yandex's two supercomputers are located at the Sasovo data center, but their impact is no…: Yandex's two supercomputers are located at the Sasovo data center, but their impact is not yet known.

MOSCOW, Oct 8 : Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether equipment at a data centre hit by a Ukrainian drone attack could be restored.

Yandex said earlier that the attack on its Sasovo hub, one of its five large data centres, caused a fire and forced it to suspend operations at the site, which hosts tens of thousands of servers.

"The scale of the damage to the infrastructure is still being assessed," Yandex said in a statement. "For the moment, we cannot confirm whether it is possible to restore the data centre equipment in Sasovo."

The company earlier said some of its services were unavailable and specialist teams were at the site assessing the damage.

Two of Yandex's three supercomputers, used to develop its AI model, are housed at the Sasovo data centre. Yandex has not said whether they were damaged.

Original source: www.channelnewsasia.com

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