Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center

An anonymous reader writes: Lightning struck a Google data center in Belgium four times in rapid succession last week, permanently erasing a small amount of users' data from the cloud. The affected disks were part of Google Computer Engine (GCE), a utility that lets people run virtual computers in the cloud on Google's servers. Despite the uncontrollable nature of the incident, Google has accepted full responsibility for the blackout and promises to upgrade its data center storage hardware, increasing its resilience against power outages.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Google was and is built on it's search engine. Maybe you weren't alive when it first came out, but it was anything but shit. Even ignoring the search results, their homepage was the fastest loading out of every other engine at the time. At slow dial-up speeds, that mattered. That mattered a lot.