Heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down computers

Record temperatures meant some cooling systems failed at the firm's London data centres.

As record temperatures hit much of the UK on Tuesday, tech giants Google and Oracle suffered outages as cooling systems failed at London data centres.

"Following unseasonably high temperatures in the UK south region, two cooler units in the data centre experienced a failure when they were required to operate above their design limits," the company wrote on a status page The problem was fixed by 07:00 BST on Wednesday and the company said that only a "small set of our customers" were affected.Because the data processed can be highly valuable to their customers, data centres are built with many back-ups, including plenty of cooling capacity.

Mr Hone added that while data centres are designed to withstand hot weather, the heatwave's temperatures would be at the "upper end of design expectations for a lot of data centre operators".But additional cooling means additional electricity consumption, which in turn can mean increased carbon emissions.

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