bbc said that Russian authorities have blamed problems accessing Google and YouTube on a fire at a data centre in Strasbourg.The country’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor tweeted that the disruption was due to the incident.The data centre belongs to French cloud service provider OVH, which runs 32 such sites in Europe, America and Asia.No-one was injured in the fire, which was declared a major incident.It is not clear how the blaze started.OVH’s chief executive Octave Klaba tweeted early this morning to say that fire had destroyed one of the data centres and a part of a second. He asked customers to “activate your disaster recovery plan”.
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