Elon Musk announced this morning that he’ll be returning full-time to X and Tesla, after a multi-day major outage on X caused by a fire in one of their data centers in Oregon.
Here’s what Musk said:
“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.
I must be super focused on /xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.
As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”
Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.
I must be super focused on /xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.
As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2025
The outage on X killed direct messages for over a day and the search capability was gone yesterday and last night. Today another outage isn’t properly showing people’s tweets in their timeline. X is a major source of information and this outage is a big deal.