When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
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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.
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The Register. (2026, November 5). When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London. The Register. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/11/05/when-datacenters-lose-power-generators-should-kick-in-that-didnt-happen-for-google-in-london/5307739
