烏克蘭無人機襲擊促使俄羅斯加緊籌劃地下數據中心
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
烏克蘭無人機襲擊損壞多座安置 AI 超級電腦的俄羅斯數據中心，並令數百萬俄羅斯用戶的雲端服務受阻，促使科技企業加固設施並籌劃地下數據中心。克里姆林宮要求數據中心業主預留算力應付緊急國家需要，並批准可能使用外國數據中心；國營電訊公司 Rostelcom 正與 Norilsk 洽談把部分數據中心移至地下。另有俄羅斯地方州長提議在露天煤礦內興建數據中心，並在上方種植公園作掩護。
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.
來源：Ars Technica · AI · arstechnica.com