Drone strikes hit a third Yandex data center in Russia and disrupt digital services
According to a report from The Record, a third Yandex data center in Russia was hit by drones over a weekend, forcing its shutdown and disrupting cloud, payment and delivery services.
According to the news item published in The Record feed, a third Yandex data center in Russia was hit by Ukrainian drones over the weekend. The report states that the site was shut down and that new disruptions followed in cloud, payment, delivery and other online services across the country. The text consulted is an automatic translation of the original English article.
The relevance for people who use AI services is concentration risk: when infrastructure depends on a few physical sites, an attack on one location can affect many services at once. Rota Nacional does not operate or control third-party data centers, and this briefing does not describe any platform capability that prevents this kind of failure. To verify the case, consult the original report in The Record, published on 12 October 2026, and compare it with other independent sources before drawing conclusions.