The fire in May at a data center owned by Singapore's ST Telemedia and Tata Communications (NSE:TATACOMM, BOM:500483) is said to have gutted clients' data collected over decades and caused network disruptions for Google Cloud services in India, according to a Reuters report on Wednesday, quoting a letter and sources.
As per the report, in a letter to international SIM card provider Matrix, the company said that despite its efforts to recover the data, the severity of the damage poses significant challenges to recovering the affected data and systems.
Gaurav Khanna, the CEO of Matrix, told Reuters that the company has likely lost access to over 20 years of accumulated operational and business data stored at the STT Global Data Centres India facility.
A source cited in the report said Google Cloud's intermittent network disruptions in India are also linked to the Delhi data center fire.
Tata Communications, Matrix, and Google did not immediately reply to' request for comment.
(Market Chatter news is derived from conversations with market professionals globally. This information is believed to be from reliable sources but may include rumor and speculation. Accuracy is not guaranteed.)