When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
Google Cloud has revealed that the cause of the October 20 outage in its europe-west-2-b availability zone was a ‘misconfiguration’ of its systems that meant its emergency generators didn’t start. The outage at the London facility caused service…
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Published6 h ago (Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:19:54 GMT)
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