If you found yourself in a mild state of panic, as you realized your brain, your history, your mapping and your doctor had simultaneously gone offline today,
当你发现你的谷歌大脑、你的浏览历史、你的谷歌地图和你的谷歌医生在今天同时离线,自己陷入了一种轻度恐慌状态时,
it was actually Google which experienced a rare and brief outage.
那实际上是因为谷歌经历了一次罕见、短暂的服务中断。
The Google outage happened at 11:12 Eastern Time,
此次谷歌服务中断事故发生在美国东部时间11点12分,
apparently caused by an explosion and fire at a substation near one of its data centers in Iowa in the United States.
而这是由于其位于美国爱荷华州的一个数据中心附近的变电站发生爆炸和火灾造成的。
Three electricians on the site were reported injured.
据报道,在现场的3名电工受伤。
At least 40 countries were affected by the outage which lasted around 45 minutes.
而此次持续约45分钟的服务中断,对至少40个国家造成了影响。
But based on Google's parents, 69.69 billion dollars in revenue in the June quarter,
根据谷歌的母公司的数据,第二季度谷歌的总营收为696.9亿美元,
that 45-minute outage cost the company around 38.3 million dollars in lost business.
而此次45分钟的服务中断,使该公司损失了大约3830万美元的业务收入。