Battery fire at Oregon data center disrupts X operations worldwide

A fire in a battery room at a Hillsboro data center on May 22 disrupted X’s global platform the following day. The fire didn’t injure anyone, but it caused widespread outages for Elon Musk’s social media firm. Digital Realty operates the facility as part of X’s consolidated infrastructure following the company’s data center closures in Sacramento and Atlanta. Investigation into the root cause continues.