A fire at a third-party data centre facility in New Delhi on June 9 triggered an emergency shutdown of networking equipment, causing widespread disruptions to Google Cloud services across India. The incident affected customers in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and surrounding regions, resulting in elevated latency, packet loss, and intermittent network disruptions. Google Cloud, one of the world's three dominant cloud providers alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, confirmed the outage on its service health page.

The fire forced an emergency power shutdown at the facility, isolating Google Cloud's local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and significantly reducing network capacity across the metropolitan area. To manage the impact, Google rerouted substantial traffic from the affected facility, though this created additional latency spikes as demand exceeded capacity across Indian metros and regional ISPs.

Industry reports have linked the incident to Tata Communications' Next-Gen Tower data centre facility in Greater Kailash, GK-1, New Delhi, where a fire reportedly broke out in a battery room on the third floor. However, neither Google Cloud nor Tata Communications has officially confirmed this connection.

The Delhi Fire Services confirmed that the blaze erupted in a battery room covering approximately 200 square feet on the third floor of a multi-storey office building opposite Savitri Cinema. The fire was brought under control by around 7 AM. Two firefighters sustained burn injuries and were treated at Safdarjung Hospital. No civilian casualties were reported.

Google Cloud has not officially disclosed the name of the third-party facility involved, stating only that a "third-party data centre in Delhi" experienced a fire requiring emergency network shutdown — leaving the full operational impact and recovery timeline still under assessment.