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If you're having issues loading websites or apps, there's a good chance it has something to do with a massive Google Cloud outage. According to Google Cloud's status page, many products started experiencing service issues at around 11:46 a.m. PT on Thursday, June 12. This caused major disruptions across the internet, from services like Spotify and Snapchat to Cloudflare and Discord, as you can see in the screenshot from Downdetector above."Our engineers have identified the root cause and have applied appropriate mitigations," reads the 12:41 p.m. PT update. "While our engineers have confirmed that the underlying dependency is recovered in all locations except us-central1 [Iowa], we are aware that customers are still experiencing varying degrees of impact on individual google cloud products. All the respective engineering teams are actively engaged and working on service recovery."As of the latest update, Google still doesn't have an ETA for full service recovery. We also don't know what exactly caused the service outage in the first place.Most of the impacted services have since come back online, as evidenced by the trend lines on Downdetector. The Google team did claim in its 12:30 p.m. PT status update that every location other than "us-central1" had fully recovered.We'll continue to keep you updated as the situation develops.UPDATE 1: "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations," reads the 1:16 p.m. PT update. "Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations. Our engineers are aware of the customers still experiencing issues on us-central1 and multi-region/us and are actively working on full recovery. We do not have an ETA for full recovery."Don't Miss: How much energy and water does ChatGPT consume?The post A Google Cloud outage took down half the internet on Thursday appeared first on BGR.Today's Top DealsTodays deals: Nintendo Switch games, $5 smart plugs, $150 Vizio soundbar, $100 Beats Pill speaker, more