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Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline
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Hot on the heels of a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian Yandex data center in Sasovo that caused a major outage, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has been struck in a similar fashion.
Key facts
- The Kaluga data center is a sprawling complex that covers around 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters)
- It's so vast that its 63-megawatt power capacity is around 50% higher than some other data centers owned by Yandex
- It's as yet unclear how this drone strike is affecting everyday Russians, but the previous Sasovo strike also impacted Yandex Cloud
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Summary
America’s AI chip rules keep changing, and the rest of the world is paying the price. GTC 2026: Ian Buck press Q&A transcript, VP of Hyperscale and HPC speaks out on shelving CPX and shipping LPU decode this year. Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible. United24 Media reports that the facility is located in Grabtsevo industrial park and was designed to be the largest Yandex data center in all of Russia.