Google Cloud experiences outage in India after third-party data centre fire
A fire at a third-party data centre in Delhi triggered an emergency power shutdown that caused intermittent network disruptions for Google Cloud customers across India. The incident isolated a local point of presence in Delhi and reduced network capacity, affecting traffic in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and nearby regions. The outage highlights the vulnerability of cloud infrastructure to physical incidents at third-party facilities, with no workaround available while restoration efforts continued.
Alphabet's Google Cloud reported that customers in India experienced intermittent network disruptions after a fire at a third-party data centre prompted an emergency shutdown of networking equipment. The fire caused an emergency power cutoff at the facility, isolating a local point of presence in Delhi and reducing overall network capacity across the metropolitan area. The disruption spread beyond Delhi, causing elevated latency for users in Chennai, Mumbai, and surrounding regions. Google Cloud did not disclose when the fire occurred, its cause, or whether it resulted in property damage or injuries. The company stated there was no available workaround and that it was exploring additional traffic mitigation measures to limit the impact on affected customers. Google Cloud is one of the world's largest cloud providers, competing with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and is widely used for processing large data volumes and running AI tools, meaning outages can have broad downstream effects on businesses and end users.
What's missing
The exact time the fire occurred, its cause, the identity of the third-party data centre operator, the estimated duration of the outage, and whether any injuries or significant property damage resulted are all absent from every source. The scale of business impact — including how many customers or services were affected — was also not disclosed.
What different sources said
- Channel NewsAsiaCenter
Google Cloud outage in India after third-party data centre fire triggers shutdown
- NDTVCenter
Google Cloud Outage In India As 3rd-Party Data Centre Fire Triggers Shutdown
- DawnCenter
Google Cloud outage in India after third-party data centre fire triggers shutdown
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