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Google London data centre outage hits UK banking and services

Original: BREAKING: A POWER OUTAGE at Google's London Cloud data center triggers WIDESPREAD disruptions across UK banking and onli

A power outage at Google's London cloud data centre triggered widespread disruptions across UK banking and online services, with BBC reporting major impact on firms including Revolut, HSBC and Royal Mail. Court video links were also affected. The incident has raised concerns about how heavily critical national services rely on a small number of cloud infrastructure providers.

Why now: Major UK banks and public services going down at once exposes the fragility of concentrating critical services in one cloud provider's data centre.

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• BREAKING: A POWER OUTAGE at Google's London Cloud data center triggers WIDESPREAD disruptions across UK banking and online services, BBC reports. Major services, including Revolut, HSBC, and Royal Mail, were affected, alongside court video links, raising concerns over reliance · coinbureau · 786

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