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Ukraine’s escalating attacks on data centres operated by Russia’s largest IT companies risk undermining Moscow’s plans for a “sovereign” AI, The Bell says. The claim links the war’s infrastructure impact to Russia’s effort to build AI capacity under its own control.

The Bell notes that Vladimir Putin recently described Russia as advancing its digital sovereignty. It also says the Kremlin’s AI ambitions would operate under state censorship. The report’s available account does not specify which facilities were hit or quantify the impact, so the scale of disruption remains unclear. Still, it is a reminder that AI ambitions need physical infrastructure, and that infrastructure can become a wartime target.

Discuss: If a country’s AI plans depend on vulnerable data centres, should resilience matter as much as compute capacity when judging its progress?

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