Azure data centre power failure takes ChatGPT down
A power failure at a Microsoft Azure data centre in South Central US took ChatGPT, Sora and OpenAI APIs offline for hours, with ChatGPT not fully back until evening.
- Service
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Date
- 26 December 2024
- Cause
- Power / cooling
- Duration
- 8 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- OpenAI ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Azure data centre power failure takes ChatGPT down”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 26 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-26-chatgpt-openai-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: OpenAI, https://status.openai.com/incidents/6bwlxnvdncnm/write-up.
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