eli5: Will I lose my files stored in google drive if a google data center gets bombed and it happens to be the one that stores my files?

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eli5: Will I lose my files stored in google drive if a google data center gets bombed and it happens to be the one that stores my files?

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Google Drive runs on the same infrastructure as Google Cloud Storage GCS, which is multi-regional – redundant copies of your data is replicated to remove the risk of data loss (even within a single region, you wouldn’t be at risk if a single location failed, and each location is generally multiple physical datacenters).

GCS (like AWS S3) has something like ‘eleven nines’ durability – i.e. 99.999999999% reliable.

So, no. You’re good.