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X Suffers New Outage Following Oregon Data Center Fire


One user commented, 'This is what happens when you fire too many people in the name of efficiency.'

Elon Musk’s X went down for tens of thousands of users in the US today, following a fire at one of the company’s leased data centers in Hillsboro, Oregon, on Thursday this week. One user on Reddit, who claimed earlier this week he has been unable to access the social network for 24 hours, quipped: “This is what happens when you fire too many people in the name of efficiency.” Before joining PCMag in 2024, I picked up bylines in BBC News, The Guardian, The Times of London, The Daily Beast, Vice, Slate, Fast Company, The Evening Standard, The i, TechRadar, and Decrypt Media.

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