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Hardware·Oct 8·all news from October 8, 2026

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged a data center housing the supercomputing infrastructure used to train Yandex’s AI models. This disruption impacts the technological capacity of Russia's primary search provider, marking a shift where critical computing assets are now targeted as strategic infrastructure in the ongoing conflict.

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