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Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days – and there’s no end in sight.

Per a Google status page, on June 9th “A fire at a third-party data center facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a non-compute local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and reducing available network capacity in the metro area.”

That shutdown caused “intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss” for network traffic headed to Google Cloud from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas. “Customers may experience slightly elevated latency and non-optimal network routing into Google Cloud until the affected facility is fully restored,” Google warned.

Google has implemented “traffic mitigations” that it says have improved performance “for some Cloud customers,” and is trying to arrange extra peering capacity.

That work is ongoing, with the ads-and-cloud giant promising it is “further augmenting our Delhi backbone capacity” and hopes to have better news on Monday. The web giant is also working to improve regional peering capacity in the city of Chennai, to assist large ISPs in India and hopes that work will be complete on Wednesday, June 17th.

Japan’s space truck is back in business

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) last week successfully launched its H3 rocket, a welcome return to form after its previous two missions failed.

This success will be doubly sweet for JAXA, because the H3 used for this mission employed a pair of outboard boosters – the first time the agency has used the launcher in this configuration.

The rocket launched on June 12th and placed six satellites in orbit.

South Korean tech exports boom, not just because of AI

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and IT on Sunday announced exports of IT products reached $47.8 billion in May, a new record and a sum 128 percent higher than tech exports in May 2025.

Semiconductor exports surged by 162.9 percent year over year, due to the AI boom. Mobile phone exports also grew by 15.9 percent, while a category the Ministry calls “computers and peripherals” saw 259.6 percent year-on-year growth.

“Displays rebounded due to increased demand for OLEDs for new mobile phones and strong sales of new laptops,” the Ministry said. “Overall exports of mobile phones increased due to a rise in the average selling price of high-spec finished products and robust demand for high-value components such as camera modules.”

South Korea imported over $15.7 billion worth of tech in the month, up 36 percent year-over-year, but still achieved a record trade surplus of over $32 billion.

Zoho builds its own servers

Indian SaaS giant Zoho has cooked up a custom server called “Nathu La” that it says will reduce the cost of operating its platform.

“The design philosophy behind Nathu La is rooted in the Open Compute Project (OCP), emphasizing modularity, thermal efficiency, and ease of maintenance, and enabling Zoho's data centers to significantly reduce total cost of ownership and power consumption,” according to a company statement.

The machines run Intel Xeon 6 processors and Chipzilla helped to design them, but Zoho says “all intellectual property [is] owned in India.”

Zoho says the servers will also help to lower inferencing costs.

The company didn’t say how it calculated its performance numbers. The Reg fancies Zoho has compared its own boxes to whatever machines it currently buys off the shelf, and believes that servers tuned to its own needs will deliver better performance.

That’s a conclusion many hyperscalers reached years ago.

NTT Data’s new boss

Japanese tech giant NTT Data has a new president and CEO: Kazuhiko Nakayama scored the twin roles last week, capping a career with the company that started in 1989 and most recently saw him serve as chief financial officer.

Previous CEO and president Yutaka Sasaki will become senior executive vice president.

“Over the past three years I have had the honour of working closely with Mr Sasaki and the leadership team on a strategic course that has established NTT DATA among the top five IT services businesses globally,” Nakayama said, according to NTT Data’s announcement of its new leadership. “That experience has reinforced my conviction in the strength of our offering, the quality of our people and the size of the opportunity ahead. As I take on the responsibilities of CEO and lead the growth of the NTT DATA Group going forward, I feel a deep sense of dedication, possibility and excitement." ®