A cloud data hub, managed by Google, was hit by four lightning strikes leading to data loss in their server by obliterating data on their storage drives.
The continual strikes of lightning have led to the loss of a 0.000001 percentage on their storage and were void of repairs and the data that was stored has no chance of recovery.
According to Google's report, the storage units in the specific Europe sector sent out reports of irregular Input/Output faults to their connected Google Compute Engine on Aug. 13.
Engineers from Google set out their recovery protocols once the problems started and were able to decrease the damage done on the pertinent disks.
The problem started when lightning striking the power systems in the sector powering the facility, causing a short blackout causing their servers to shut down. Even with their automated emergency power protocols firing up and supplying them with electricity, the battery backup of the drives were drained and some data was loss reports NBC.
It also took physical involvement from Google employees to get the server up and running. Engineers have run diagnostics and evaluations spanning across all layers of their cloud servers.
Though the responsibility lies on the corporation, they would like to clarify that instances on their Engine and Disks placed in the same data center are imminently susceptible to large-scale disasters, likened to the lightning storm.
The lightning strikes did not hit the building itself but hit the power grid supplying electricity to the datacenter, Google clarifies. Google continues operations and is still bringing the status up-to-date.
Google is now making efforts to increase reliability of their software and hardware so that the event shall not be repeated.