Twitter loses key data center due to extreme heat in California

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Another outage may result in Twitter going dark for some of its users.

The outage led to a full shutdown of Twitter's physical equipment at the Sacramento location, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.

"On September 5th, Twitter experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region due to extreme weather. The unprecedented event resulted in the total shutdown of physical equipment in SMF," wrote Carrie Fernandez, Twitter's vice president of engineering, in the memo.Its data centers in Atlanta and Portland remain operational, but if another one goes offline, "we may not be able to serve traffic to all Twitter's users," Fernandez said.

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