乌克兰无人机袭击促使俄罗斯仓促筹划地下数据中心
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
因乌克兰无人机袭击损坏 AI 超算设施并中断云服务，俄罗斯科技公司正仓促筹划将数据中心转移至地下。袭击波及了 Yandex、Sberbank、VKontakte 及俄财政部的数据中心，克里姆林宫已要求预留应急算力。目前国有电信公司 Rostelcom 正探讨与矿企 Norilsk 合作迁入地下，亦有提议在露天煤矿建厂并以公园伪装。
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is requiring data center owners to reserve computing capacity for emergency state needs and has even authorized possible use of foreign data centers.
These consequences of Russia's war against Ukraine come as the Russian military has bombarded Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles nearly night and day in recent months, along with specifically targeting Ukrainian data centers since late September. But Ukraine has retaliated with its own drone strikes on military and infrastructure targets across Russia, degrading or knocking out data centers operated by Russian tech giant Yandex, the state-owned bank Sberbank, social media site VKontakte, and the Russian Ministry of Finance.
Now, state-owned telecommunications company Rostelcom has raised the possibility of moving some Russian data centers underground in talks with the nickel and palladium mining company Norilsk, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti. The industry publication Data Center Dynamics also pointed to a recent proposal by a Russian regional governor to build data centers within open-pit coal mines while planting green public parks above as camouflage.
来源：Ars Technica AI · arstechnica.com