Google Cloud outage in India after third-party data centre fire triggers shutdown

Alphabet’s Google Cloud said on Tuesday that some customers in India experienced intermittent network disruptions after a fire at a third-party data centre triggered an emergency shutdown of networking ‌equipment.

The cloud-computing ⁠unit ⁠said the fire led to an emergency power ​shutdown at the facility, isolating a local point ​of presence in Delhi and reducing network capacity across the metropolitan area.

Google Cloud ​did not say when the ⁠fire occurred ‌or whether it caused ​property damage ​or injuries.