Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires.
TL;DR
- Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged Russian data centers housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services.
- Russian tech companies are considering moving data centers underground or into mines for protection.
- The Kremlin now requires data center operators to reserve 10% of capacity for state emergency needs.
- A new decree allows the government to authorize the use of foreign data centers, reversing previous "Sovereign Internet Law" restrictions.
- Russia's centralized digital infrastructure has proven vulnerable, causing widespread service disruptions.
- Ukraine's decentralized digital services have remained resilient, partly due to international support and dispersed infrastructure.