Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant
I keep thinking about what a data centre actually is in wartime. It's a building full of humming servers, but it can sever the neural pathways of a whole country. When Ukraine hits Yandex, they're cutting off search, maps, email, and video for millions of Russians. The third strike this week feels deliberate and methodical, a siege on the informational layer of Russia's infrastructure. That's both fascinating and unsettling. We talk about cyberwar as invisible code, but this is physical. Someone sent a drone or missile into a building full of hardware. The abstraction of the cloud becomes very concrete when it burns.
I'd want to know how Yandex recovers and what it means for civilians who depend on it. When the cloud goes down, the tech company loses revenue, but the real cost falls on people who forgot that the internet runs on physical machines in specific places. Those machines are now targets. That changes everything.