Any remaining foreign companies doing business domestically in Russia (that thought they needed to host things in a Yandex datacenter) should be completely unsurprised by this result. As for the domestic Russians, there's a magical solution, when every square cm of Ukrainian territory is back in the hands of the UA forces, and the Russians have withdrawn back across the border, the strikes on datacenters will stop.

I did not expect Russian shills on Hackernews.

Destroying heating units in Ukraine also affects innocent users in much worse ways than losing a datacenter.

> Even if you hate Amazon or Google, you probably wouldn't want AWS or Google Cloud datacenters destroyed by Iran, because that would just affect innocent users.

Interesting take. Last I checked, those datacenters hosted software that targeted a children's school.

Innocent users who voted for killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine.

I guess for some definition of "innocent".

You know the Zeds attacked Ukrainian internet providers , attacked hospitals, train stations etc , do Zeds really expect that that Ukrainians are less capable than Ruzzians of doing the same? Or the Zeds are surprised that the decadent West is not forcing Ukraine to be kind and gentle with the "innocents" in Moscow, those poor Moscowites can't good when the AA is firing and now they might not have access to memes and videos either.

Russia's economy was always much less diversified than any western country even before the war but now what is even left as legitimate businesses nowadays? It's just the war machine and income to fund it, mainly from raw materials.

And I'm sure these data centers were also used for military purposes, no way they weren't in the current russian environment.

Incorrect, and the mental gymnastics at play here is rather telling

>you probably wouldn't want AWS or Google Cloud datacenters destroyed by Iran

Huh?