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Google says its London-based data centre is experiencing “service disruption”. (Reuters: Andrew Kelly)
In short:
Google says a “power event” at a London data centre has disrupted cloud services across Europe.
The outage has affected banks, websites and court live streams.
The technology giant says its engineers are working to fix the problem.
Google Cloud services have failed across Europe aftera “power event” at a data centre based in London, according to the tech giant’s website.
The issue has reportedly affected banks and other websites across the continent.
The Google Cloud website is not reporting serious issues in any other region, but said that services in parts of Europe could experience “elevated errors and intermittent network issues”.
“Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within europe-west2-b zone,” the Google Cloud website said.
Google said the incident began shortly after 6am UK time and that its engineering teams were investigating.
Customers of major UK banks were reporting issues accessing their accounts. (Reuters: Phil Noble)
Banking giant Revolut is among the institutions believed to have been affected by the outage.
“We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services,” the bank said in a statement on social media.
“We can confirm that all our customers’ money and data are safe.”
Another major British bank, Halifax, wrote on X that customers were “having issues with our app and online”.
Brand trial live stream affected
Court live streams, including that of the ongoing trial of comedian Russell Brand, were also reportedly down as a result.
“We’re aware of an issue affecting Cloud Video Platform (CVP), used for some remote hearings,” the UK’s Courts and Tribunals Service said on X.
British media outlets reported that other major companies, including Royal Mail, Microsoft and delivery company DPD were also experiencing issues.
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