Yesterday, July 19, a series of servers from two companies in Great Britain suffered an outage. In some places the air temperature reached forty degrees Celsius, forcing local authorities to wrap the Victoria bridge in foil to protect it. The country’s infrastructure is not built to withstand the extreme heat levels that are unusual for the country, even in summer.

What is the situation now?

On its Google Cloud status page, the company states that a “cooling-related failure” has occurred in one of its UK data centers.

This resulted in a partial bandwidth failure in this area, resulting in virtual machine downtime and machine loss for a small group of customers.
Google says.

The company adds that it has privately shut down some of its servers to prevent further damage.

Oracle left a similar message for customers on its status page, citing “off-season temperatures” directly in the UK as the cause of the outage. The software developer temporarily shut down some of their computers to prevent system crashes, but the latest update shows that the service is slowly getting back online. Oracle says the temperature in the data center has “reached an operational level” but is still working to restore the cooling system.

It is not clear how many users or what region of the world was affected by the outages, but it may have caused problems with hosting websites for users using Oracle and Google Cloud services.