Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption

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, one of over a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients.