Unless, of course, there was an unexpected failure with the European cluster, when they were bringing the servers up. Could be a load balancer went haywire, a database cluster didn't sync, an unexpected hardware failure. Things that are UNPLANNED.
So please, save the victim card for a more appropriate time. Its wasted on this. I'm certain they're trying to bring the European servers up, and aren't all off on a bender laughing about the servers being down.