Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline
- ID
- 33984
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 10 Oct 2026, 6:30 PM
- Fetched
- 10 Oct 2026, 7:48 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/second-russian-data-center-targeted-by-ukrainian-drones-in-just-two-days-as-yandex-reels-from-another-service-outage-russian-state-media-admits-that-multiple-modules-completely-taken-out
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 4.5
- Created
- 10 Oct 2026, 7:49 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_startup_founders
What happened
Tom's Hardware reports that Ukrainian drones struck a 63 MW data center in Kaluga, Russia — described as the largest data center in Russia, with multiple modules of the 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline, and Russian state media acknowledging that multiple modules were 'completely taken out.' It was the second strike on a Russian data center in two days, with Yandex reporting another service outage as a result. The excerpt itself is mostly subscription/navigation boilerplate, so specifics beyond the facility size, power rating, module damage, and the Yandex outage are not available from the text.
Why it matters
The concrete takeaway is that a single 63 MW campus can lose multiple modules at once and take a downstream service (Yandex) offline with it — which is a reminder that 'multi-AZ in one region' does not survive a physical event at the site. If you are choosing where to place workloads, the decision-relevant question is whether your critical services can run from a region outside your primary country, not whether your provider advertises redundancy. The text does not give enough detail (no timelines, no recovery figures, no provider statements) to say anything more specific than that.
Discussion angle
Use this as a concrete case for a cross-region failover drill: ask who in the room can actually restore their main service if their primary region goes dark for 24 hours, and what the last tested restore time was — the 1.4M sq ft / 63 MW scale here makes 'we have multiple availability zones' look like a weaker answer than people assume.