Fire at third-party data centre hits Google Cloud services in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai (original) (raw)

A fire at an external data centre has caused a disruption in Google Cloud services across India.

Tech giant Google Cloud on Wednesday said its traffic originating from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas were experiencing network disruptions and elevated latency due to a fire at a third-party data centre facility in the national capital late on Tuesday night (IST).

“A fire at a third-party data centre facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a non-compute local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and reducing available network capacity in the metro area. We rerouted significant traffic from the impacted facility in Delhi to address the reduced local serving capabilities,” the company said.

As a result, a subset of Hybrid Connectivity and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers may be impacted by the routing changes made to address the reduced local, latency-optimised serving capabilities in Delhi, it said.

Google also explained that it was investigating additional traffic mitigations and Internet Edge peering augmentation to alleviate the latency issues affecting its customers.

“Customers may experience slightly elevated latency and non-optimal network routing into Google Cloud until the affected facility is fully restored. There is no workaround at this time,” the company further said.

The company added that it will provide its next update early morning on Thursday (IST).

Published on June 10, 2026