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  "id": 15779811,
  "title": "‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/too-big-to-not-fail-google-outage-exposes-uk-reliance-on-a-handful-of",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T16:50:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London , and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app. The datacentre in question was in Google’s…",
  "key_points": [],
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      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-failure-hits-millions-as-uk-courts-and-banks-knocked",
        "published": "2026-10-20T09:45:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Arabian Business",
        "title": "Google Cloud down: Outage reported as bank services fail",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-down-outage-reported-as-bank-services-fail",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:23:11.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "AppleInsider",
        "title": "Google outage hitting EU, UK hard",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-outage-hitting-eu-uk-hard",
        "published": "2026-10-20T11:07:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Euronews Business",
        "title": "Power outage hits Google Cloud services disrupting UK banks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/power-outage-hits-google-cloud-services-disrupting-uk-banks",
        "published": "2026-10-20T12:56:28.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}