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谷歌伦敦数据中心停电导致广泛服务中断Power outage at Google datacentre in London causes widespread disruption

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在俄勒冈州达尔斯的一个数据中心,一名谷歌技术员正在诊断一个过热的CPU。照片:谷歌提供/EPAA Google technician diagnoses an overheated CPU at a datacentre in Dalles, Oregon. Photograph: Google Handout/EPA

专家指出,此次停电凸显了我们对少数大型公司数字基础设施日益依赖所带来的风险。

Outage shows danger of growing reliance on small number of big companies for our digital infrastructure, say experts It happened again.

再次发生类似事件:伦敦的一个数据中心遭遇停电,引发连锁反应——多家银行服务出现故障,法院听证会被迫暂停,患者也报告NHS应用程序出现临时故障。

A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app.

该数据中心位于谷歌的europa-west2-b区域,这是这家美国巨头在欧洲运营的十几个数据中心之一,用于为全球客户提供服务。

The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of over a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients.

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