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X Faces Major Outages After Oregon Data Center Fire

5/24/2025

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X experienced major outages on Saturday, impacting thousands of users in the US and UK, with over 25,000 reports.
A fire at a data center in Oregon was identified as the cause, leading to performance and login issues.
By 11 a.m. ET, many users reported improvements, suggesting a resolution was underway.
This follows previous outages in March due to a cyberattack and another earlier in the week.

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Story summary

X experienced major outages on Saturday, impacting thousands of users in the US and UK, with over 25,000 reports.
A fire at a data center in Oregon was identified as the cause, leading to performance and login issues.
By 11 a.m. ET, many users reported improvements, suggesting a resolution was underway.
This follows previous outages in March due to a cyberattack and another earlier in the week.