Google Cloud data center in London faces outage on UK’s hottest day

(Reuters) – A Google Cloud information heart in London confronted an outage on Tuesday, in accordance with an replace on the Alphabet Inc unit’s standing web page, as temperature within the UK soared to a file excessive.

Google Cloud stated it was a “cooling associated” failure at one of many buildings and commenced at 1:13 pm ET (6:13 pm BST).

A “small set” of consumers are impacted, in accordance with the replace on the standing web page. Part of the difficulty nonetheless persists. (https://bit.ly/3OdAFig)

Britain recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, with the temperature exceeding 40C (104F) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing prepare tracks to buckle and fuelling a spate of fires throughout London.

(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Modifying by Krishna Chandra Eluri)