乌克兰无人机打击促使俄方筹划地下数据中心并征用算力
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
乌克兰无人机打击损坏了存放 AI 超级计算机的设施，扰乱了数百万俄罗斯用户的云服务，俄罗斯科技公司正计划将数据中心加固或转入地下。受打击的数据中心涉及 Yandex、Sberbank、VKontakte 和俄罗斯财政部；国有电信公司 Rostelecom 与 Norilsk 探讨将部分数据中心移入地下，克里姆林宫要求数据中心所有者为紧急国家需求预留算力，并批准可能使用境外数据中心。
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