Ukrainian strikes on Yandex’s data centers could set back Russia’s AI development by years. Never a rival to the U.S. or China in AI, Russia may now fall behind Kazakhstan, too.
Meduza · 15 Oct 2026

Ukrainian strikes on Yandex’s data centers could set back Russia’s AI development by years. Never a rival to the U.S. or China in AI, Russia may now fall behind Kazakhstan, too.

Ukrainian attacks on Yandex’s data centers have hit key growth areas for Russia’s leading IT company: search and AI. All three Yandex supercomputers — Chervonenkis, Lyapunov, and Galushkin — likely suffered serious damage from fire and smoke. Soot may have reached their electronics through cooling s


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