GigaCenter Kyiv Data Center Damaged in Russian Attack on Oct. 20

Who runs GigaCenter

GigaCenter sells colocation of server and IT equipment to businesses. It belongs to the GIGAGROUP holding, which also includes telecom operator GigaTrans, cloud provider GigaCloud and cybersecurity firm GigaSafe, Interfax-Ukraine said. That mix matters for tenants: a colocation hall that carries network, cloud and security services under one roof concentrates risk when it goes dark.

What the reports say about continuity

112.ua, citing Espreso.tv, reported on October 22 that all staff were safe and that operations were suspended indefinitely. It said client data had been moved to backup facilities in European Union countries and that no timeline for resuming work had been given. Those details come from a secondary report and not from a company release that Voltgrid could read.

The same report said the site had been hit before. It was first damaged on September 23 during an attack on the Kyiv Expo Center Parkovy, and by October 1 the data center inside that complex had stopped operating, according to 112.ua. For operators and investors in the region, the sequence shows a pattern of repeated strikes on one operator's Kyiv capacity within a month.

What is not confirmed yet

The extent of the damage is disputed in the coverage. DatacenterDynamics headlines the story as a destruction, while the company's own statement, as quoted by Interfax-Ukraine, speaks of damage and possible disruptions. Espreso.tv, via 112.ua, describes a missile strike; Interfax-Ukraine says only that it was an attack.

No source gives the site's capacity in megawatts or racks, the number of affected customers, or a date for restoring service.