{"id":285398,"date":"2026-10-09T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:04:07","slug":"ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s drones knock out AI data center belonging to &#8220;Russia\u2019s Google&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as \u201cRussia\u2019s Google\u201d because it operates the country\u2019s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain its AI chatbot and other online services.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions of Russia on October 8 and October 9, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russias-yandex-says-second-data-centre-hit-by-drone-attack-2026-10-09\/\">according to Reuters<\/a>. Those actions came as a direct response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/russian-drones-strike-ukraines-data-centers-by-exploiting-air-defense-gaps\/\">Russian drone strike campaign targeting Ukraine\u2019s data centers<\/a>, which has disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of Ukrainians since late September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to respond to Russia\u2019s attacks on Ukraine, and we\u2019re doing so with high precision,\u201d said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2108509610990579862\">in a post<\/a> on X. \u201cAnother data center was hit as well\u2014our symmetrical response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as \u201cRussia\u2019s Google\u201d because it operates the country\u2019s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain its AI chatbot and other online services. The Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers in the Sasovo and Kaluga regions of Russia on October 8 and October 9, according to Reuters&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukraine\u2019s drones knock out AI data center belonging to &quot;Russia\u2019s Google&quot; - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ukraine\u2019s drones knock out AI data center belonging to &quot;Russia\u2019s Google&quot; - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. 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