A recent fire in a data center in India has caused extensive damage, impacting multiple customers.On June 5, Tata Communications posted stock exchange filings notifying shareholders of a fire incident at its premises at Next-Gen Tower, Greater Kailash-1 in New Delhi.The fire, suffered by a company leasing space at the site, was brought under control by firefighters, and no one was injured. Delhi fire authorities reportedly said the incident occurred in lithium battery units.The facility is operated as a data center by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), which lists the site as STT Delhi 2, offering 1.1MW of capacity.Google Cloud services were impacted as a result of the incident, after the fire forced the company to shut down network equipment powering a local Point of Presence (POP) in the building. At the time of writing, the incident is still ongoing on Google Cloud’s status page, with customers facing “elevated latency and non-optimal network routing into Google Cloud.”“Following safety clearance, our team has accessed the damaged site and is continuing to restore additional capacity throughout this week,” Google said in a June 23 update. “We have optimized capacity across network backbones to increase available headroom and augmented our Delhi user-facing backbone capacity. We will continue to closely monitor latency deviations and packet drops.”According to Reuters, the fire has caused “extensive damage,” per letters to customers and analysts.Matrix Cellular, which provides international SIM cards, told Reuters it is struggling to recover two decades of data lost in the fire."Despite our ongoing best efforts to recover the data, the severity of the damage ... presents significant challenges to the recovery of the ​affected data and systems," a Tata letter to Matrix Cellular said, as seen by Reuters.Indian Internet service provider R2 Net told Reuters the firm faces an estimated loss of $2 million as well as the loss of commercial clients from the disruption.Tata sold a 74 percent stake in its data center business in India and Singapore to STT GDC in 2016. The firm still holds the remaining stake. The JV operates dozens of data centers across India.Tata continues to offer various ICT services from dozens of data centers globally (many leased), including cloud services. The group recently outlined plans to get back into the data center business with plans to develop up to 1GW of capacity across India through its new HyperVault venture. OpenAI is set to be a customer.