Sure, but it’s probably not a coincidence that this outage occurred shortly after their rollout of AI results. One could reasonably speculate that Google added

Sure, but it’s probably not a coincidence that this outage occurred shortly after their rollout of AI results. One could reasonably speculate that Google added some extra work to their indexing process (e.g. to create embeddings), and underestimated the impact of this change on resource consumption.