Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centers Could Set Back AI Development in Russia by Years. Russia Never Competed With the U.S. and China in This Field — and Now It Will Probably Fall Behind Kazakhstan Too

Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centers Could Set Back AI Development in Russia by Years. Russia Never Competed With the U.S. and China in This Field — and Now It Will Probably Fall Behind Kazakhstan Too

Ukrainian attacks on Yandex data centers have affected the key growth areas of Russia’s leading IT company: its search service and AI.

All three Yandex supercomputers — Chervonenkis, Lyapunov, and Galushkin — were probably seriously damaged by fires and smoke: soot may have entered the electronics through the outside-air cooling system. Cleaning could take months, while replacing damaged NVIDIA chips could take years because of equipment shortages.

Before the start of the full-scale war, Chervonenkis ranked 19th out of 500 in the global supercomputer rankings. Russia now risks falling behind Kazakhstan in the AI race as early as November.

The publication T-invariant spoke with computing systems experts and explains how extensive the consequences of the Ukrainian military’s attacks could be for Yandex both as a business and as Russia’s IT leader.

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Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers could set back AI development in Russia by years. Russia never competed with the U.S…

Ukrainian attacks on Yandex data centers have affected the key growth areas of Russia’s leading IT company: its search service and AI. All three Yandex supercomputers — Chervonenkis, Lyapunov, and Galushkin — were probably seriously damaged by fires…