I don't like the cloud either but it is not really fair to use a facility cooling outage as criticism for the cloud. That can happen to just about anything - including your ISP, or any backbone facility.
Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama Weird error message triggered by Azure update blunder September 5, 2018 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/05/microsoft_office_outlook_skype_throttled/
This was caused initially by lightning strikes during serious storms. https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/w...aily-record-as-storms-13202276.php&ipid=artem That's quite the jump. Daily rainfall of 6.07" vs 1889 record of 1.76". But hey, just a fluke, no doubt. Or evidence for iffy reporting. Not global climate change. No, not ever that.