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7 incidents

• 2026-10-20 · London, England, United Kingdom · Data Centers and Energy

  Power failure at Google's London data center disrupts UK banks, courts, and online servicesPartially confirmed

  On October 20, 2026, a power event at Google Cloud's London data center facility disrupted services across the UK and Europe for several hours. Revolut, Lloyds Bank and HSBC customers reported app problems, Royal Mail deliveries stalled, and remote court hearings on HM Courts and Tribunals Service's Cloud Video Platform were disrupted. Google restored service the same day and attributed the disruption to a power event, but the company and press reporting noted that some bank app problems had not been officially linked to the incident, and the full scope of effects remains unconfirmed. AI connection: General data center — the cited sources describe Google Cloud infrastructure and do not establish an AI-specific workload.

  Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline'Too big to not fail': Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers'Power event' disrupts hearings on Cloud Video PlatformEuropean banks, websites hit as Google Cloud data centre goes offline for hours

• 2026-08-09 · Storey County, Nevada, United States · Water and Environment

  Water-availability dispute over Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center challenges data-center growthPartially confirmed

  An ongoing legal battle between the developer of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center and the park's water provider raises contested questions about whether existing water supplies can support the park's rapid data-center expansion, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing data center markets serving AI and cloud operators. The competing claims about water availability remain unresolved in litigation, and nothing has been finally determined about whether supply is adequate. AI connection: The cited sources describe AI data centers driving the region's growth; the dispute itself concerns water availability rather than AI operations.

  Could Nevada's tech epicenter run out of water? That's the big question in an ongoing suitAs AI data centers multiply across the Mountain West, so do fears over water useThe data center boom in the desert

• 2026-07-15 · Arlington County, Virginia, United States · Water and Environment

  Lawsuit alleges AWS misreported water use at Northern Virginia data centersPartially confirmed

  In July 2026, a former AWS water sustainability program manager, Nathan Barasa Wangusi, sued Amazon in the Arlington County Circuit Court, alleging that AWS published false and misleading statements about water use at its Northern Virginia data centers and overstated progress toward its water-sustainability goals while withholding the full regional water use. AWS denies wrongdoing and says its reported water data has been independently assured by a third party. The case is pending and nothing has been proven. AI connection: General data center — the cited sources describe cloud hosting infrastructure and do not establish an AI-specific workload.

  AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit allegesAWS faces lawsuit over allegedly false data centre water sustainability claimsAWS faces lawsuit over alleged misleading water sustainability claims

• 2026-07-14 · Southaven, Mississippi, United States · Data Centers and Energy

  Reporting finds more unpermitted gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 than publicly acknowledgedPartially confirmed

  In July 2026, Reuters reported that xAI had installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Southaven, Mississippi than it had publicly acknowledged, and that the resulting pollution falls hardest on nearby Black communities. xAI disputes the characterization of its turbines as unpermitted, and in October 2026 a federal judge allowed the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit to continue. AI connection: xAI operates the Colossus campus to train its Grok models, so the sources establish an AI-specific facility.

  Pollution from Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communitiesJudge allows lawsuit against SpaceXAI to continue

• 2026-02-16 · Montgomery County, Missouri, United States · Public Records

  Residents sue to void Montgomery County's Amazon data-center agreement over open-records claimsPartially confirmed

  In February 2026, the resident group Preserve Montgomery County LLC filed suit in the Cole County Circuit Court seeking to void Montgomery County's agreement with Amazon for a proposed 1,000-acre data center at the Heart of America mega site northeast of New Florence, alleging multiple violations of Missouri's Sunshine Law in how the project was approved. The allegations remain unproven; in September 2026 a judge dismissed the state economic development department as a defendant while allowing the case against the county to continue. Google and Amazon data centers covering about 1,900 acres are planned on opposite sides of Interstate 70 east of New Florence. AI connection: General data center — the cited sources name Google and Amazon but do not establish AI-specific workloads.

  Lawsuit opposing data center alleges numerous Sunshine Law violationsJudge dismisses state from Montgomery County data center lawsuitData center lawsuit moves forward

• 2025-08-19 · Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States · Damages

  Stillwater neighbors sue over red mud runoff from Google data center construction into their pondPartially confirmed

  On August 19, 2025 the Park View Estates homeowners association in Stillwater, Oklahoma sued Google subsidiary Kipper LLC and three construction firms, alleging mass grading of the $3 billion Google data center site without adequate stormwater controls sent red mud and silt into the neighborhood pond, with residents reporting dead fish. By December 2025 the student newspaper reported that Kipper LLC and Manhattan Construction Group had taken responsibility for repairing the property; the lawsuit was continuing. Partially confirmed: the damage claims are allegations in ongoing litigation.

  Stillwater HOA sues construction companies over pond pollutionStillwater HOA continues lawsuit against Google

• 2025-07-10 · Mansfield, Newton County, Georgia, United States · Damages

  Neighbor says Meta data center construction ruined her well water in Newton County, GeorgiaPartially confirmed

  Beverly and Jeff Morris, whose home in Mansfield, Georgia is about 1,000 feet from Meta's $750 million data center, told the BBC and The New York Times that construction beginning in 2018 left sediment in their private well and their taps eventually ran dry, forcing them to haul water. Meta disputes the connection and says an independent groundwater study it commissioned found no adverse effect. Partially confirmed: the household damage is reported, but its cause is disputed.

  I can't drink the water - life next to a US data centreTheir Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door