Three people were injured in an incident at a Google data center in the US state of Iowa on Monday evening. The three were taken to hospital, local media reported.
By our tech editorsIt is still unclear whether this incident is related to the temporary crash of Google’s website and search engine on Monday evening. Many people reported a malfunction around the same time.
Google parent company Alphabet could oppose news agency Bloomberg not respond right away. A Google spokesperson said SFGate know it is aware of “an electrical incident” at Google’s Council Bluffs data center. The incident is under further investigation.
On the American website Downdetector, where people can report malfunctions, more than 40,000 reports were received on Monday evening around 9 p.m. (local time). Google’s website wouldn’t load and people said they couldn’t perform searches either. Problems were also reported in Taiwan and Japan.
This kind of malfunctions of the site and search engine of Google are rare. An hour later the problems were solved. The tech giant initially said to The Guardian that it was a software update that caused problems. The company has not yet responded to questions about whether the electrical incident may be related to the outage.