Power outage hits Google Cloud services, disrupting UK banks
A power outage at Google’s London data center led to significant disruptions for British banks, with services returning to normal after six hours.
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Google needs consent to publish private property images on Earth, Maps, German court rules
A court in the western German state of Hesse has said Google is "spying" on people and has no right to publish information about their property on its Maps and Earth sites. The case stems from images taken from the air.
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Google Says 'Multiple' Cloud Services Suffer Network Failures in Europe
Multiple Google Cloud services were experiencing serious network disruptions at its European data center based in London on Tuesday, according to the US technology giant's service health website. British digital bank Revolut said it is facing disruption to multiple services, which a source close to the matter attributed to the Google Cloud outage. "Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region," Google said in a service update referring to its London data center.
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Data centre boom is constraining the world’s supply of memory chips, leading to 'chipflation' and making your everyday electronics more expensive