Google Cloud servers in Europe disrupted by power outage, Revolut bank affected

Google is reporting "high error rates" and "intermittent network outages" in its London-based European data center, affecting several cloud services (remote computing), according to Google's outage site on Tuesday. An electrical failure would be the cause, according to the group. “Due to an electrical event, we suffered an outage in the europe-west2-b zone,” explains the American tech giant, indicating that it plans a “partial” restoration of some of its services shortly.

British online bank Revolut said it was experiencing “disruption” in several of its services, with a close source attributing it to this Google Cloud outage. “Several Google Cloud services are currently experiencing high error rates and intermittent network outages in the Europe-West2 region,” Google said. “Our engineering team is continuing to investigate this issue,” added the tech giant.

“The data and money of all our customers are safe”

Revolut assures that “all our customers’ data and money are safe.” Contacted, the British neobank did not provide further information. The Downdetector platform, which collects reports from users concerning service problems around the world, identified the first reports concerning Revolut a little before 8 a.m. By 9 a.m., more than 1,500 had already been registered.

Downdetector lists around ten other companies in the United Kingdom which are currently experiencing problems with their online services: Lloyds Bank, Rightmove, HSBC, Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland, Sky, SiteGround and even DPD.