Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption

October 20, 2026 · 9:46 am 2 sources

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• Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption
  The Guardian · October 20, 2026 16:50
  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…

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