When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London

Generator failure during maintenance window leaves London facility vulnerable

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards·5 Nov 2026, 06:19·United Kingdom

When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London

An October power disruption at Google's London data centre escalated when on-site backup generators failed to engage as designed. The outage was traced to a flawed programmable logic controller setup that emerged during concurrent maintenance, which had already compromised site resilience.

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