Google: server outage due to heatwave in UK

intense climate which is currently being registered in several countries of the world has led to new possibilities, but this time not in people but in machines Google Cloud you Fortune-teller. Technology company server in great Britain suffered wounds in the past Tuesday, July 18because intense heat wave registered in the country, which reaches 40 degrees centigrade.

In official site from Google Cloudthe company indicated that one of its data centers based in the country experienced an unexpected outage due to “cooling related error”. “This causes a partial capacity failure in that zone, leading to VM shutdown [máquinas virtuales] and loss of machinery for a small number of our customers”Google said adding that it too have turned off some of the engines so the damage stopped.

Oracle didn’t escape the heatwave

As the portal reported later Registration you computer beeps, Oracle sends a similar message to its customers and users. However, on the status page you can see how the company directly quotes “untimely temperature” in the UK as the cause of malfunctions in their devices.

The company had to turn off some of its equipment to prevent further failure or damage both on the machine and on your system in the past July 19but in its latest update, Fortune-teller He mentioned that he was already slowly restoring his service. “The temperature in the data center has reached workable levels but we are still working to improve the cooling system”he mentioned.

Extreme heat looms over England

While there is currently no real estimate of how many users are affected by these bugs, they could cause more problems for people who use them. Fortune-teller you Google Cloud to be your host websitebecause they are the most used servers for this type of task.

TheVerge shows that UK infrastructure is not in a position to support extreme heat level because it is very strange in this region even in summer. Apart from causing these complications in database technology companies, the weather is also disrupting travel across the country, melting the runway Luton Airport in London and even cause railroad tracks they will bend and break.

Other effects of extreme heat waves include forest fires that appeared in London, Kent, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire.

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