Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir area shut down after drone attack

MOSCOW, Oct 11 (Reuters) Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday that ​its infrastructure had been ‌damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data centre in the Vladimir ‌region. No ​one was injured ⁠in the attack, ⁠but some of Yandex s services are currently unavailable to users, the company said. This is the ​third major data centre to have been taken ⁠out of action ⁠in the last few ​days. On Friday, Yandex, which is heavily ​involved in Russia s AI development ‌and is sometimes called Russia s Google , said its data centre in the Kaluga region southwest ⁠of Moscow had been struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of ⁠action. A ‌day earlier, a ⁠Ukrainian attack shut down ​Yandex s ‌data hub in Sasovo, ​southeast of ⁠Moscow, where two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company s AI model are housed. (Reporting by Gleb StolyarovEditing by ​Tomasz Janowski)