美国当地时间8月9日下午，根据网络媒体报道，位于美国艾奥瓦州康瑟尔布拉夫斯的谷歌数据中心发生起火爆炸，造成3人重伤。
随后有用户发现包括搜索、地图、Gmail在内的部分谷歌服务出现宕机的情况，根据网页服务检测网站显示，谷歌搜索中断了半个小时，波及全球十几个国家和地区。
据悉，谷歌在美国共部署了14个大型数据中心，其中艾奥瓦州的项目投资高达50亿美元（约合330亿元人民币左右），是其中最大之一，比其它中心10亿到20亿美元的造价高出不少。
翻译：
Three people were seriously injured in a fire and explosion at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the afternoon of August 9 local time. According to online media reports.
Later, some users found that some Google services, including search, maps and Gmail, were down. According to the Web service detection website, Google search was interrupted for half an hour, affecting more than a dozen countries and regions around the world.
The Iowa project is one of the largest of Google’s 14 large data centers in the United States, costing $5 billion (about 33 billion yuan), far more than the $1 billion to $2 billion cost of other centers.
