Russian Yandex Data Centers Destroyed and Cause Outages - Disaster Recovery Goes to WAR
Source: YouTube · Eli the Computer Guy · published Oct 11, 2026 · 22:49
Modern data centers and internet infrastructure were never designed for wartime attacks, as recent drone strikes on Russia's Yandex data center and earlier incidents against AWS facilities show 0:00.
Key Takeaways:
• Iran's IRGC attacks on AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE caused permanent data loss—replication failed because so many facilities in one region were destroyed 0:54.
• Ukraine retaliates by targeting Russian data centers like Yandex ("the Google of Russia") to disrupt communications 2:58.
• Though IPv4/ARPANET was designed to route around destroyed nodes, post-Cold War builders reverted to centralized architectures with single points of failure 7:29.
• Attackers needn't destroy a whole data center—taking out cooling towers or a single shared water line can crash it 12:17.
• Remote work dependence raises economic stakes: an attack on services like Zoom could severely damage the US economy 16:49.
• A generation of tech professionals without military experience doesn't design for war—even Meta's fabric "tent" data centers are highly flammable 5:45, 19:45.
As attacks escalate from the Middle East to Ukraine to Russia, the speaker warns Europe and the US may be next 19:14.
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Coming from CNBC, Russia's internet giant Yandex halts operations at major data center after drone attack. So it does appear that the favorite game for 2026 is no longer pickle ball. It is plinking data centers. Remember when I used to talk about plinking data centers and my viewers used to say I was being mellow dramatic and all of that kind of stuff? Yeah, I remember those days. There's a reason I try to talk about the things that I do in these particular videos. And there's there's a reason I get very frustrated when CEOs look at me and think I'm a jackass sometimes. Cuz don't get me wrong, I I I am a jackass. And I'm a jackass with a point. I'm a jackass with a point. Uh so we've been seeing a lot of plinking of data centers lately, right? So in uh the Middle East, we saw Iran plinking…