Overview
- A fire at a third‑party Delhi data‑centre on June 9 isolated a non‑compute Point of Presence and reduced local network capacity across the metro.
- Google rerouted significant traffic away from the affected PoP to limit disruption while compute servers remained online.
- Customers using Hybrid Connectivity and VPC networking have continued to see intermittent latency spikes and occasional packet loss as routing shifted and capacity stayed constrained.
- Google said it is testing further traffic mitigations and expanding Internet Edge peering to relieve congestion but offered no customer workaround and warned slightly elevated latency may persist until the facility is restored.
- The incident highlights risks from reliance on third‑party colocation and strained regional infrastructure, with recent heat, power and fire incidents in Delhi‑NCR intensifying concerns about digital resilience.