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  "id": 15745322,
  "title": "Power outage hits Google Cloud services, disrupts UK banks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/power-outage-hits-google-cloud-services-disrupts-uk-banks",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T13:22:32.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://punchng.com/power-outage-hits-google-cloud-services-disrupts-uk-banks/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused service failures on Tuesday, disrupting several UK banks and businesses. Google reported that the incident began at 0608 GMT on Tuesday due to a \"power event,\" resulting in unavailable services in the europe-west2-b zone and intermittent network issues in the europe-west2 region. Euronews Business reported that Google expected a full recovery around 1300 GMT.\n\nThe outage affected multiple financial institutions, including Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC, and Bank of Scotland, according to Finextra. Lloyds and HSBC confirmed customers faced difficulties with their apps, online banking, and other services. Silicon Republic noted that Revolut experienced disruptions involving ATM withdrawals, card payments, stock trading, ID verification, live chat support, and merchant transactions, though the company stated all customer money and data remain safe.\n\nOther organizations were also impacted by the technical issues. Downdetector indicated reports of problems affecting the Royal Mail, Rightmove, DPD, and BT, according to reports from Euronews Business and Silicon Republic.",
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      {
        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "title": "Google Cloud services down in UK; banks and public sector report issues",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-services-down-in-uk-banks-and-public-sector-report-issues",
        "published": "2026-10-20T09:11:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "Power outage hits Google Cloud services, disrupts UK banks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/power-outage-hits-google-cloud-services-disrupts-uk-banks-15745495",
        "published": "2026-10-20T13:22:32.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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