Chinanews.com comprehensive US media news, at noon local time on the 8th, an explosion occurred in the Google data center in Iowa, the United States, injuring 3 people, and has been sent to the hospital. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
According to media reports, an arc flash (electrical explosion) suddenly occurred while three electricians were working in a substation near the data center building, causing three electricians to be severely burned, and one electrician was helicoptered to Nebraska for medical treatment. The centre, the other two were taken to hospital by ambulance and, according to the local Council Bluffs Police Department, all three were breathing and conscious when they were taken to treatment.
At present, Google has provided a statement to the media confirming the accident, emphasizing that the health and safety of all employees is the company’s top priority, and is currently working closely with partners and local governments to thoroughly investigate the situation and provide necessary assistance.
Google spokesman Devon Smiley said in a statement: “We are aware of a power incident at the Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa today that injured three people and is currently in the process of receive treatment.
After the crash, more than 40,000 people in the U.S. reported being unable to use Google searches, according to downtime tracking site Downdetector.com, but that number has since declined.
Many users have posted screenshots of Google’s error report on Twitter. The topic of “Google down (#Googledown)” was a hot search on Twitter, and many users posted screenshots of downtime messages.
In addition, users in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore have also reported Google outages. The web service detection website showed that the search was interrupted for about thirty or forty minutes.
In addition to the malfunctioning Google search engine, according to DownDetector, thousands of people reported that Google Maps was also malfunctioning. In addition, there are users on Twitter claiming that Google Mail, Gmail and Google Photos are also out of order.
The cyber intelligence firm ThousandEyes Inc reported that Google’s outage affected at least 1,338 servers in more than 40 countries around the world, including the United States, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Israel, parts of South America, and parts of Europe and Asia.
Many foreign media have speculated that this may be related to the power accident in the morning, but Google has not yet responded to whether the outage incident is related to the explosion.
It is understood that Google has 14 large data centers in the United States and 23 in the world. According to reports, the data centers “keep all Google products and services running 24/7.” The data center at Council Bluffs, one of the largest, first opened in 2009.
The project investment in Iowa is as high as 5 billion US dollars (about 33.2 billion yuan), which is much higher than the cost of 1 billion to 2 billion US dollars in other centers, and its status should be very important.
It’s worth mentioning that not long ago, Google’s data center hosting one of its London cloud regions suffered “simultaneous failures of multiple redundant cooling systems.” Google did not disclose the specific cause of the failure, but said its engineers are analyzing the system that triggered the incident and will review cooling system equipment and standards in data centers around the world where Google Cloud is located.
Google then shut down a portion of the system’s equipment in the region to prevent longer outages or machine damage, causing part of the region’s capacity to fail, resulting in instance terminations, service degradation, and network issues for some customers.
Google said it was due to its team “inadvertently modifying the traffic routing of internal services” to avoid all three regions in Western Europe. Regional storage services, including GCS and BigQuery, replicate customer data across multiple regions. Due to changes in regional traffic routing, any replica of many stored objects is inaccessible and prevents customers from reading these objects in the event of routing errors. (Leifeng Network)
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