Google Cloud's Delhi data-centre fire left India's traffic degraded for three weeks

On 9 June 2026, a fire at a third-party data centre in Delhi forced Google Cloud to shut down network equipment and reduce capacity in the region. Google isolated the Delhi point of presence and rerouted traffic, but demand exceeded the available capacity, and customers in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas saw latency spikes and possible packet loss.

The outage hit Google's Hybrid Connectivity and VPC services, which underpin how enterprises connect on-premises networks to Google Cloud. Google's status page tracked the incident from 5 June to 26 June, meaning customers carried degraded network performance for roughly three weeks while the company rebuilt capacity.

The failure was a resilience decision: Google had concentrated a point of presence in a single third-party facility, so a fire there cut the backbone links that carried India's traffic. Rerouting was only a partial answer because the surviving network could not absorb the demand.

Google said it would optimise backbone capacity, expand the Delhi point of presence and migrate peering to reduce the risk of a repeat. The episode showed how a single physical facility failure in one market could degrade a cloud region for weeks, even with traffic rerouting in place.