Elon Musk's X went down for tens of thousands of users in the US, following a fire at one of the company’s leased data centers in Hillsboro, Oregon. The Thursday morning fire required an “extended response from emergency crews,

The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.

Reports of the outage began to surge shortly after 8:00 AM ET on Friday. Downdetector, a site that tracks service disruptions in real time, logged tens of thousands of complaints within minutes. Users reported login issues, missing feeds, degraded API performance, and complete service failures on both desktop and mobile apps.