AI internet is down: Google Cloud outage breaks Firebase, Supabase, Cursor, Lovable, and more

The internet’s AI infrastructure just hit a wall.

A major outage across Google Cloud Platform is causing widespread failures in services that power many of today’s AI tools. Firebase is down. Supabase is struggling. Vibe coding app Cursor isn’t loading. Lovable stopped working. And that’s just the start.

Google Cloud and Cloudflare Hit by Widespread Service Outages

Everything traces back to Google’s us-central1 region, where a service disruption started rolling through core systems around 1:50 PM ET. From there, the dominoes fell.

“Multiple platforms including music streaming service Spotify and instant messaging platform Discord were down for tens of thousands of users on Thursday after an outage at Alphabet’s Google Cloud,” Reuters reported.

Who’s affected

• Firebase: Authentication, Firestore, Hosting, and other core services are offline or degraded. Many apps can’t load user data or serve content.

• Supabase: Widespread complaints about database access and failed connections.

• Cursor: Down. The AI coding editor relies on Firebase, and without it, it’s frozen.

• Lovable: Unavailable.

• Google AI tools: Gemini and other internal services are unstable.

• Google Workspace: Reports of issues with Gmail, Meet, Drive, and YouTube.

• Cloudflare and AWS: Partial outages reported, which may be compounding the issue for apps running multi-cloud stacks.

You get the picture. If you opened a startup app today and it wouldn’t load, you’re not alone.

“It’s like someone unplugged the AI internet.”

That’s how one developer put it on Hacker News. They’re not wrong.

A massive chunk of the new tech stack — especially apps built around AI workflows or launched as micro-SaaS tools — depend on just a handful of cloud providers. Google Cloud being one of the biggest. When it breaks, it breaks wide.

Services that rely on Firebase for login, hosting, or database access are dead in the water right now. Some teams are reporting 503 errors, broken login flows, and blank dashboards. Cursor users can’t open projects. Lovable users can’t get past the loading screen.

What’s Google saying?

Google acknowledged the issue on its status dashboard. The short version: “us-central1 is down,” and teams are “actively working on mitigation.”

It’s been hours, and there’s still no firm timeline for full recovery.

Firebase’s own dashboard reads like a list of things you can’t use right now: Firestore, Hosting, Auth, Dynamic Links, Remote Config, and more — all marked “service disruption” or “service outage.”

DownDetector and developer panic

Over on DownDetector, it’s red across the board — from Google Cloud to Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Twitch. Even OpenAI services are reporting issues. Many of these platforms use Google Cloud, so it’s no surprise they’re seeing problems too.

The issue isn’t just technical — it’s financial. AI startups that are bootstrapping or operating on thin margins are watching their apps collapse in real time. Customer trust takes a hit, and there’s nothing they can do except wait.

This is a wake-up call

Startups betting everything on a single cloud provider are now scrambling for answers. Some are talking about moving to multi-region deployments. Others are asking if they should start thinking about backup infrastructure. Today, the default setup — Firebase plus AI wrapper plus Stripe — feels a little shaky.

No one likes to hear “you should’ve had a backup,” but days like this force hard conversations.