X Crashes Globally Days After Data Center Fire

The Verge reports:

Elon Musk’s X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage. Global internet monitor NetBlocks writes that X “has been experiencing international outages for users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.

The issue comes after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday morning. Wired writes that multiple unnamed sources told it that the fire, which forced “an extended response from emergency crews,” involved batteries in one of the data center’s rooms.

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— The Verge (@theverge.com) May 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM