# Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-20T16:50:31+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/power-outage-at-google-datacentre-in-london-causes-widespread-disrupti-bfc988/

Outage shows danger of growing reliance on small number of big companies for our digital infrastructure, say experts It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app. The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone,

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