Yandex says restoration of equipment at drone-hit Sasovo data centre remains uncertain
Yandex is assessing damage at its Sasovo data centre after a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire and forced the site to suspend operations.
Sasovo, Russia. Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether equipment at its data centre hit by a Ukrainian drone attack could be restored.
Fire forces operations to stop
Yandex previously said 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 houses tens of thousands of servers.
The company also said some of its services were unavailable and specialist teams were at the site assessing the damage.
Damage assessment continues
“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.”
Two of Yandex’s three supercomputers, used to develop its AI model, are housed at the Sasovo data centre. The company has not said whether they were damaged.
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