Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers

Russia is moving to secure its data centers after Ukraine's drone strikes damaged facilities, including those of Yandex, Sberbank, VKontakte, and the Russian Ministry of Finance. State-owned Rostelcom is in talks with Norilsk to move some data centers underground. Putin has ordered data center operators to reserve 10% of capacity for government use, and has also allowed the use of foreign data centers with government approval. This comes after Ukraine has retaliated to Russia's drone strikes with its own drone attacks on Russian data centers and infrastructure.