Comparitech researchers have published a new study looking at which countries are seeing the fastest growth in data centers.  Data centers are, for the first time, being targeted in military conflicts as a means to disrupt daily life and damage economies. A Russian attack recently hit a Datagroup facility in Ukraine. A series of strikes by Iran in March damaged AWS facilities…

Russian forces continue to strike Ukrainian data centers. On September 25, they attacked an office building in Kyiv that houses a Datagroup data center. The center was damaged, but the company said al...

Russian forces continue to strike Ukrainian data centers. On September 25, they attacked an office building in Kyiv that houses a Datagroup data center. The center was damaged, but the company said…

Rusia ataca a nuevos centros de datos como Datagroup, Kyivstar y Vodafone, afectando a la comunicación del ejército y al Internet en hogares.

Russia has opened a new front in its campaign against Ukraine, hitting several datacentres and internet providers in Kyiv this week in an apparent attempt to weaken the digital backbone of the economy. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region suffered temporary internet outages after strikes on Wednesday and Thursday, according to Ukraine’s digital transformation ministry. On Friday, another drone strike in central Kyiv hit the offices of Datagroup, one of Ukraine’s largest telecommunications companies, killing four people. “Russia has targeted major Ukrainian datacentres, seeking to disrupt the flow of information,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, wrote on X. On Thursday, Polish authorities reported a Starlink satellite station in central Poland serving Ukraine had been set on fire, in what appeared to be part of a coordinated attack on Ukraine’s internet infrastructure. Local officials described it as an “act of sabotage” linked to Moscow. Russia has previously targeted Ukraine’s datacentres, but attacks on this scale are new. Keeping the country connected has been a priority for the Ukrainian government throughout the war, with authorities looking for ways to ensure mobile and internet providers have enough backup power to keep operating during prolonged electricity outages. Ukraine’s relatively decentralised internet...

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