Google Cloud is dealing with a network disruption in India after a fire at a third-party data center triggered an emergency shutdown of network equipment. The incident has affected traffic across several major areas, including Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai, with interruptions reported at intervals.
The company said the event reduced network capacity in the Delhi metropolitan area. At the same time, a local point of presence in Delhi was isolated after the facility carried out an emergency power shutdown.
Service impact across major Indian cities
Some customers in India have experienced intermittent network issues, according to Google Cloud. The disruption has not only slowed services but also caused latency spikes in network traffic from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and surrounding regions.
Such issues can quickly affect business operations. Applications, websites, and internal systems may slow down when network capacity drops and traffic no longer flows normally.
Google Cloud also said there is no temporary workaround available while recovery efforts continue. The Alphabet cloud unit said it is still reviewing additional traffic mitigation steps to limit the impact on customers.
What remains unclear
The company has not said when the fire happened. It also has not disclosed whether the incident caused property damage or any injuries.
So far, Google Cloud has only confirmed that the fire at the third-party data center forced an emergency shutdown of network equipment. From there, network capacity in the Delhi area was reduced, and some customers felt the effects in several major Indian regions.
The episode highlights how dependent many businesses are on large-scale cloud infrastructure. Google Cloud is one of the world’s biggest cloud providers and competes with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Services of this kind are widely used to process large volumes of data and run artificial intelligence tools. That makes a network problem in one data center enough to affect many users and company systems quickly.