Google down: Major outage affecting Gmail, YouTube, Nest, and other sites

A major outage took down multiple Google websites and services including Gmail, Youtube, and Nest on Monday, December 14, 2020.

Google services and websites like YouTube, Gmail, Nest, and Google.com suffered a major outage on Monday, December 14, 2020. The problems appear to have started around 6:30 AM ET and lasted until nearly 8:00 AM ET.

Downdetector and Google Workspace dashboard showed just how widespread the outage was.

Update 7:53 AM ET: Services appear to be coming back up as users have reported being able to access YouTube and other Google services.

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TechRepublic has reached out to Google for a statement, but have not heard back as of publication. This is a developing story and we will update it as more information comes in.

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