Posts on the Google Home subreddit draw attention to an unfathomable amount of data being consumed by the Home Speaker (via 9to5Google ). The user states that they've "got one old Google Mini and three of the new Google speakers." What's more, these devices aren't used for more than 20 minutes a day.
What happened
The user states that they've "got one old Google Mini and three of the new Google speakers. " What's more, these devices aren't used for more than 20 minutes a day. This is strange, considering the user reports one of their Google Home Speakers consumed over 140GB of data in a day.
Where the sources line up
Combined, the user states their three speakers consumed 6TB of data "in under a month. " Another user with a Home Speaker reported the same, stating, "Something’s up with them. This just started in the past 2 weeks for mine. " This issue appears to be confined to the Google Home Speaker, as a user with a Nest Audio couldn't find an unusual amount of data consumption.
Practical impact for readers
The publication speculated on this, too, but one Redditor said their speaker downloaded 20GB in a single day. However, they added that "It kept downloading firmware and failing to install it. " This makes it seem like the device got caught in the worst possible loop of downloading and failing.
Who should pay attention now
Google reportedly informed the publication that this is an issue with the Home Speaker. It adds that "a fix is already rolling out" to address this problem. Android Central has reached out to Google for more information, and we will update this post when we hear back.
What is still unclear
Google Home outage left Nest devices stuck and unresponsive Your dusty Nest and Home speakers just got a surprise firmware lifeline Android 17 could soon fix your phone's Wi-Fi and mobile data problems for you Hungry, hungry speaker Google speakers like to gobble data from r/googlehome Android Central's Take I'd be concerned if I woke up one day and saw huge spikes of data being consumed by a Home Speaker. For what reason is it doing this, you know? It's a concerning issue, especially for something always connected to the internet (hence the data consumption). What makes it worse is if you don't use it that often, but maybe sparingly for queries here and there. The good thing is that Google is aware. Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
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