Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption
- Google: 135 events in the last 90 days
- Google: 3th Outage in the last 90 days
- Previous: 41 days earlier · Taylor McGregor ‘never had to Google so much in my life’ for FSU-SMU power outage reporting
What happened
Outage shows danger of growing reliance on small number of big companies for our digital infrastructure, say experts It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app. The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of over a dozen…
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below
Sources
News
- Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruptionThe Guardian World