Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X

A fire broke Leased on Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsoboro in Oregon Elon Mask’s XTalking to wired by force of extended reactions from emergency crews according to multiple sources. Sources need to be named after them are not authorized to speak publicly about companies.

According to the Hillsbero Fire and Rescue spokesman Pesth Pitch, firefighters arrived at Hillsoboro Technology Park west of a suburb of Portland. They found a room with battery that was thought to be involved in the fire. The pitch noted that the fire did not spread to other parts of the building, but said that the room was heavy on the question. The crew was still on the scene till 4pm.

X did not respond to any request to make the wired comment immediately. Server operations in the data center cannot learn whether the operation was affected by the event.

Before buying the Elon Mask TwitterThe company had three data centers in Sacramento, Portland and Atlanta. It has confirmed that if a data center is reduced, traffic can be transferred to the other two – and divided so that no single data center is overwhelmed.

Before the Christmas of 2022, the Kasturi closed the X’s data center in Sacramento in an attempt to reduce the expenses. In the context of the shutdown, the company has experienced a major conflict. For the next six months, the company has transferred more than 2,573 server racks to Portland and Atlanta from Sacramento facility, according to internal documents.

In the Portland region, X leases to a building that has been associated with digital reality, one of the largest data centers in the world. Digital Realty provides operating support at various levels on its sites, which may have one or more tenants. It is unclear whether X shares this facility with other companies.

Ryan Young, Vice President of America Operations for Digital Real, told Ward on Thursday evening that “Our PDX 11 has a fire -related incident” and the fire department is gone. “All the workers were safely removed, no injured,” Young said. “We are observing the situation, the protection of our staff, the integrity of the convenience and the influence of the customer.”

Young customers refused to comment.

Batteries often serve as a backup power source at the data center. However lithium-ion varieties may be unstable and problems including maintenance and insufficient security measures Have contributed Expensive shining at data centers around the world. Hillsoboro Fire Department spokeswoman Pitch said no previous fire involved in the battery in many other data centers in the Oregon region could not be remembered.

X’s original company, Jai, Electricity capacity at a new data center in the open Memphis last year has been criticized in recent months for rapid expansion. The benefits called Kalsas, that facility was built at a speed of brakes for training of Jai’s Grock and other AI tools. The company has installed more than 30 methane powered gas turbines, but as the turbines are temporary, there is no need for a federal permit to control pollution, which seems to use a gap in the Clean Air Act. This advantage has brought widespread criticism from the surrounding black and brown communities, who have already been in contact with a large amount of air pollution and industrial emissions from other facilities in the region.

Update 5/22/25 11:03 ET: This story has been updated to include additional comments from Digital Realty.