California Dreamin’ takes out Twitter data centre

@ 2022/09/13
I'd be safe and warm If I was in L.A.

Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centres, and a company executive has warned that it is only a matter of time before more servers go dark.

On 5 September, Twitter's Sacramento datacentre region went down due to extreme weather and equipment had to be shut down.

Carrie Fernandez, the company's vice president of engineering, said in an internal message to Twitter engineers on Friday. Major tech companies usually have multiple data centres, in part to ensure their service can stay online if one goes down. But with Sacramento switched off Twitter lost that redundancy.

Fernandez explained that Twitter's data centres in Atlanta and Portland are still operational but "If we lose one of those remaining datacenters, we may not be able to serve traffic to all Twitter's users."

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