What you need to know Widespread Google outage is affecting Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and other core Google services. Users are unable to log in to their Gmail accounts, YouTube's home page is down, and all Nest devices are affected. Google is aware of the issue, and is investigating the problem right now. Google is seeing a widespread outage that is affecting most of its key services, including Gmail, YouTube, Drive, and others. So if you're trying to log in to your Gmail inbox or access YouTube's home page and unable to do so, you're not the only one facing issues.