Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company
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A single actor losing half its data centers to drone strikes underlines how fragile centralized digital infrastructure is in a conflict. If your core services are concentrated in a few facilities or a single vendor region, you have a geopolitical single point of failure, not just a redundancy problem.
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