Google Cloud outage after Delhi data centre fire reroutes traffic

Google Cloud said it rerouted traffic after a fire at a third-party data centre in Delhi reduced available network capacity and caused service disruption for users in parts of India.

The incident affected customers in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, according to reporting based on Google’s status-page update. Users reported degraded performance, including higher latency and possible packet loss, while the company worked to mitigate the impact.

What happened

The fire hit a facility that supported Google Cloud networking in the Delhi area, including a local point of presence. Reporting said the reduced capacity in that location forced Google to shift traffic away from the impacted facility.

Google’s response focused on rerouting and reallocating network capacity to keep services running while the affected infrastructure was unavailable.

Why it matters

Google Cloud depends on regional network infrastructure to keep traffic close to users and reduce delay. When a local facility goes down, customers can see slower performance or intermittent connectivity until traffic is moved elsewhere.

The reported impact was centered on India, making the incident a localized infrastructure problem rather than a global outage.

What remains unclear

The reporting does not give a full restoration timeline, and it is not yet clear whether Google will publish a detailed postmortem or identify any broader customer impact beyond degraded service.

Further updates would need to clarify when capacity returned to normal and whether any services were materially affected beyond latency and packet loss.