At the beginning of the week, the thermometer exploded causing temperatures that exceeded 40°C in London. One of the buildings located in the area europe-west2-a » could not stand the high heat.
Tuesday, July 19 around 1am, an incident is reported indicating a “failure related to cooling” on one of the buildings. This caused some servers to go down. To be on the safe side, technicians cut off a wider area and limited launches of Google Compute Engine, a service that lets businesses launch workloads on Google’s servers.
Around noon on Tuesday, the services were relaunched, but some services were still not working correctly on Wednesday noon, such as the API Gateway, which makes it possible to develop, secure or deploy APIs. In the list of services that were still problematic, we note Google Cloud SQL, GC Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine or Persistent Disk. Currently, everything seems to be back to normal, but this incident is likely to force data center managers to review their site security plans in the face of ever-increasing risks of heat waves. Especially since the increasing cooling of these buildings will force a very problematic overconsumption of electricity in this period of global energy crisis.
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