Google Cloud data centre in London faces outage on UK’s hottest day
The Hindu
The company said this was due to a cooling related failure at one of its buildings
A Google Cloud data centre in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high.
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Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the buildings and began at 1:13 pm ET (6:13 pm BST).
A “small set” of customers are impacted, according to the update on the status page. A part of the issue still persists.
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