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title: "During Extreme Heatwave the Twitter's Server Went Down"  
description: "Twitter data center was situated in the California state got unsuccessful on the same day when Sacramento reached a scalding high of 113 degrees Fahre"  
author: "Siddhi Shaw"  
published: 2022-09-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1983/during-extreme-heatwave-the-twitter-s-server-went-down  
category: "twitter"  
tags: ["twitter", "data", "temperature data logger"]  
reading_time: 3 minutes  

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# During Extreme Heatwave the Twitter's Server Went Down

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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HIGHLIGHTSTwitter data center which was situated in the California state got unsuccessfulFailure highlights an increasing worry vulnerability of tech companiesOracle and Google servers had went down during the time of heatwave
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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](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2601/what-are-different-data-storage-options-are-available-in-android) offline. However the failure would highlights a progressively worrying vulnerability of [tech companies](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44167/top-10-tech-companies-to-work-for-in-india)’ within the [climate change](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/299742/climate-change-and-health) 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](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1706/tiktok-is-working-to-safeguard-the-us-data-and-national-security) 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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/111919/what-s-driving-the-increase-in-extreme-weather-events) 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](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1969/whistleblower-claims-would-be-used-by-musk-judge-would-not-delay-twitter-trail) in an exceedingly “**non-redundant state**,” as written by **Fernandez** in the workers memo.

Well, around the whole country at [multiple locations](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/110021/how-to-feature-multiple-locations-on-google-maps-app) the company had several [data centers](https://www.mindstick.com/news/4042/alphabet-invests-3-3b-in-two-south-carolina-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.

Also Read: [A New Edit Button Rolls Out on Twitter with a Limit of Five Times within 30 Minutes](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1975/a-new-edit-button-rolls-out-on-twitter-with-a-limit-of-five-times-within-30-minutes)

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