I Just Wanted a Russian Search Engine to Index My Website—Then Its Data Center Was Hit by Drones...
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In early October 2026, Ukrainian drones struck a data center belonging to Russian tech giant Yandex. The attack severely damaged multiple facilities, and three supercomputers used to train AI were taken offline indefinitely. The unexpected incident also affected me as I was trying to get Yandex to index my website.