Data centre fire knocks parts of X offline for days
A fire at an Oregon data centre left the platform intermittently unavailable for some users from 22 to 24 May.
- Service
- X
- Date
- 22 May 2025
- Cause
- Power / fire
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Tom's Guide ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Data centre fire knocks parts of X offline for days”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 22 May 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-05-22-x-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Tom's Guide, https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/internet/the-10-most-impactful-outages-of-2025.
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