Drones hit Yandex data centre in first major attack on Russian data hub

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) Drones hit a major data centre in Russia s Ryazan region ​owned by the country s ‌leading AI and technology company Yandex, the company said on Thursday. It added that the attack caused a fire ‌and ​forced the company ⁠to fully suspend ⁠the centre s operations. The company said it was dealing with the consequences and restoring affected ​services. The company said that its core consumer services were ⁠not affected. Yandex ⁠runs YandexGPT, one of ​Russia s leading generative AI models. The attack ​on the Yandex data centre ‌followed a wave of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres in recent weeks. Previously there ⁠were no confirmed major Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian data centres. On the website ⁠of ‌its Yandex Cloud service, ⁠the company said there ​were ‌problems with the electricity ​supply at ⁠one data centre zone , and recommended customers use other zones. (Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Gleb BryanskiEditing by Muralikumar Anantharaman