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Sberbank Data Centre Hit - Putin is SCREWED if Ukraine Continues this at Scale?!

Sberbank Data Centre Hit - Putin is SCREWED if Ukraine Continues this at Scale?!New12 min

<p>Silicon Bites Ep422 | 2026-10-15 | Ukraine Hits Russia&#39;s Digital Fuel. Trump Said Leave the Fuel Alone. So, Ukraine Hit the Data. Refineries are a slow burn, but Data centres are a spark that could ignite the whole Russian economy and collapse Putin’s regime. Certainly, the implications for his war economy are huge and devastating. Trump told Ukraine to leave Russia&#39;s fuel alone. Ten days ago, he said Zelensky had &quot;better damn well stop&quot; hitting Russian refineries. So overnight on the fourteenth of October, Ukraine went after a different kind of fuel. Not diesel. Data. Perhaps a far more combustible accelerant of chaos? ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.org----------SOURCES:Sber confirmation, Vedyakhin statement, complaint surge, 100m+ customers, gov e-services: Yahoo/AFP, 14 Oct 202682 MW, 120,000 servers, 650 km, supercomputer due 2027, Yandex strike dates: Ukrainska Pravda, 14 Oct 2026122.2bn roubles, construction ongoing: Militarnyi; entrance damage, causation not established: Odessa JournalGigaChat / Samokat outages: Militarnyi. Mail.ru, VK, Ozon, Tochka, Rosselkhozbank: social-media reports only, unverified900+ drones: AFP citing Russian MoDSasovo, two of three supercomputers, Kaluga: DCD / Reuters; Ukrainian data centres hit: DCDEnergy ceasefire = refineries only, Ukraine one refinery: Axios via Ukrainska Pravda. &#39;Better damn well stop&#39;, diesel deal: Reuters/AFP. &#39;We will burn refineries&#39;, ~60% capacity: FT via Liga.netOther Sber sites (Yuzhny port, Skolkovo): DCD----------</p><p><br></p>