谷歌伦敦数据中心断电引发英国多项服务中断

谷歌位于伦敦的europe-west2-b区数据中心发生电力中断，导致英国多项关键在线服务受到影响。1受影响的机构包括英国皇家邮政、金融科技平台Revolut、汇丰银行和劳埃德银行等，同时NHS应用程序和英国法院远程听证系统也无法正常运作。1这次中断在上午9点左右达到最严重程度，下午中期才开始逐步恢复。1

这一事件暴露了英国公共服务和商业系统对大型云基础设施提供商的深度依赖。1互联网基础设施专家Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak指出："超大规模云服务商已变得大到不能失败。但更糟的是，它们已深深融入我们数字生活的方方面面，以至于从它们转向似乎不可想象。"1英国政府基础设施中约60%托管在云服务上，主要由亚马逊、微软和谷歌提供。1与此相比，去年亚马逊AWS美国东部数据中心的中断事件规模更大，持续约15小时。1

A power failure at Google's europe-west2-b datacentre in London has caused widespread disruptions across the United Kingdom, affecting critical financial and public services 1. The outage impacted the Royal Mail, Revolut, HSBC, and Lloyds Bank, as well as NHS applications and the UK court remote hearing system 1. The incident peaked around 9 a.m. and began to resolve by mid-afternoon 1.

The outage has renewed concerns about the concentration of digital infrastructure among a handful of cloud giants. According to Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak, an internet infrastructure expert, "Hyperscalers have become too big to fail. But worse, they have become so deeply embedded in all aspects of our digital lives that moving away from them seems unimaginable" 1. This vulnerability reflects a broader trend: approximately 60 percent of UK government infrastructure is now hosted on cloud services, predominantly provided by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google 1.