Home Root causes Power and facilities Power and facilities Power, cooling, fire or a data center facility problem.
Incidents per month
December 2025 November 2026
Incidents Critical Oct 20, 08:26 UTC
Critical Oct 20, 06:34 UTC
Major Oct 20, 06:00 UTC
On Monday, 19 Oct 2026 at 22:53 US/Pacific (Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026, 06:53 BST), a data center facility that hosts europe-west2-b, a zone within the europe-west2 cloud region, experienced an external electrical power disruption. Major Aug 19, 10:43 UTC
Major Jul 15, 23:57 UTC
On Wednesday, 15 July 2026, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Bare Metal Solution (BMS), and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) experienced service interruptions for a total duration of 14 hours, 55 minutes. Major May 29, 06:47 UTC
Major May 29, 06:32 UTC
Minor May 8, 00:25 UTC
Critical Mar 1, 13:33 UTC
Questions How common are outages caused by power and facilities? 9 incidents in the last 12 months across the vendors tracked here were traced to power and facilities in the vendors' own words.
How is this cause identified? From the sentences where the vendor explains why the incident happened, or by hand for landmark postmortems. Symptoms like "elevated error rates" are never counted as a cause.
Incidentsby Glyph
AWS: Increased Error Rate and Latencylasted 26h 39mPower