Son of a Russian Federal Security Service general helps run a company selling mobile data centers amid Ukrainian drone strikes, BBC reports
Russian firms anticipated Ukrainian strikes on data infrastructure well before they began, running drills and snapping up mobile data centers, the BBC Russian Service reports. One major supplier, Yadro, counts as deputy CEO Boris Korolev, son of FSB First Deputy Director Sergey Korolev — a containerized unit from the company runs 18 to 25 million rubles bare, far more with servers installed.
Ukraine struck three of Yandex's six data centers between October 8 and 11, hitting facilities housing all three of the company's supercomputers and disrupting services broadly. A deputy minister had publicly urged companies just days earlier to move computing power beyond the Urals, out of strike range.
Whether the younger Korolev still holds his stake in the holding company is unknown since its financials aren't public; a journalist cited in the piece suspects his father is the real beneficial owner. Separately, the draft Russian budget doubles planned spending on internet traffic filtering to 60 billion rubles over three years, flowing through the same holding company.
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