🇬🇧 A POWER OUTAGE IN LONDON JUST PARALYZED PART OF THE UK On the morning of Oct 20, a power failure at Google Cloud’s London data center disrupted Revolut, HSBC, Halifax, Royal Mail, and even court video links. Google says power has been restored and most services are back, but the root cause hasn’t been disclosed. One point of failure took dozens of services down with it, a lesson in the risk of putting everything in one cloud “home.”