Google Cloud experienced intermittent network disruptions across major Indian cities on June 10 after a fire at a third-party data centre in Delhi triggered an emergency shutdown of networking equipment at the facility, the Alphabet unit confirmed.

The fire led to an emergency power shutdown that isolated a local point of presence in Delhi and reduced network capacity across the metropolitan area. The disruption cascaded to affect network traffic from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and nearby regions, causing periods of elevated latency for Google Cloud customers. The company said there was no available workaround while restoration efforts were underway, and that it was exploring additional traffic mitigation measures to limit the impact on users.

Google Cloud did not disclose when the fire occurred, whether it caused property damage, or whether any injuries were reported.

The outage carries broad commercial implications. Google Cloud is one of the world’s largest cloud computing platforms, competing directly with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and is widely used by Indian enterprises, startups, and government-linked entities to process large data volumes and run artificial intelligence workloads. Disruptions of this nature cascade across businesses and end users, slowing applications, websites, and internal company systems simultaneously, with no ability for affected customers to self-remediate while the infrastructure remains isolated.

The incident highlights the physical infrastructure risk that underpins cloud computing dependence, particularly the concentration of network routing through single points of presence in major cities. India’s accelerating cloud adoption across banking, fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise software makes outage events of this kind increasingly consequential for the broader digital economy.