Russia wants to camouflage its data centers to stop them being bombed — and it might even move them underground…
- Russian concerns about Ukraine drone strikes have prompted a review of data center resilience to strikes
- Defense measures include anti-drone nets, signal jamming hardware, and even camouflage
- The Digital Development Ministry has also proposed moving facilities underground
Ukraine’s increasing targeting of Russian data infrastructure has resulted in Moscow considering new defensive measures against drone strikes.
The Digital Development Ministry has proposed a list of countermeasures and precautions against attack, ranging from jamming hardware and camouflage to building subterranean data centers.
With experts warning that a data center outage could leave a facility value wiped by up to 87%, Russia is taking steps to protect is cloud and AI facilities. But such action could increase costs for each facility by around 10%.
Pushing up the potential cost of future data centers, safety measures include protection against shockwaves for servers, power supplies, and cooling systems.
Drone strike risk
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