Twitter's California data centre failed due to extreme heat, report

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Twitter's California data centre failed due to extreme heat, report
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Twitter's California data centre failed due to extreme heat, report

The company says there has been no disruption to its services

An extreme heat event in California on 5th September triggered an outage at a crucial Twitter data centre in Sacramento, leaving the popular social media network vulnerable in the event of another ...

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