Last Monday, Sacramento had reached a scalding high of 113 degrees Fahrenheit, which had smashed the previous daily record of 108. On the same day, a Twitter data center which was situated in the California state got unsuccessful. 

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Twitter data center which was situated in the California state got unsuccessful
Failure highlights an increasing worry vulnerability of tech companies
Oracle and Google servers had went down during the time of heatwave

The server center outage has not impacted the site users, instead of it has made Twitter a lot more vulnerable, by taking its back-up data storage offline. However the failure would highlights a progressively worrying vulnerability of tech companies’ within the climate change era. Servers should stay cool to run properly, however maintaining their temperatures would be a costly challenge, particularly those which were situated in places like California’s Central Valley.

Other tech giants have been recently practicing similar outages. At the time of heatwave in the UK earlier this year, both the Oracle and Google servers had went down. Well, huge scale crypto mining operations in Texas had to reduce operations in July to account for heatwaves and a stressed power system.

For the West, last week’s heatwave was one of the most extreme till date. It had brought triple-digit temperatures to most of the California and shattered closely 1,000 heat records. The extreme weather taxed the electric grid and the state had narrowly avoided blackouts. 

But as the electricity stayed on, Twitter’s servers did not do so. The outage had placed Twitter in an exceedingly “non-redundant state,” as written by Fernandez in the workers memo. 

Well, around the whole country at multiple locations the company had several data centers which would include Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon. Those centers had stored duplicate data on purpose, in order to avoid data loss and total site outages. However as of Friday, Fernandez had warned, “if we tend to lose one in all of those remaining data centers, we would not be able to serve traffic to all the Twitter’s users.”

As Sacramento failure had occurred on Monday and the staff memo was sent on Friday therefore, there have been a minimum of five days of server disruption. It being unclear if the data center has been brought online in the interim, or if the the outage is was on progress.

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