DOGE chief Elon Musk said on Saturday he is working and sleeping “24/7” at work, adding he “must be super focused” on his troubled businesses X/xAI and Tesla, as well as SpaceX.
Musk stepped back earlier this month from day-to-day oversight of DOGE as he was running up against a time constraint as a Special Government Employee appointment by President Donald Trump. Musk also said he is pulling back from making political donations after helping Trump win last November’s election.
The social media platform X has had severe performance issues this week, apparently related to a battery fire at an Oregon data center. Tesla has been the target of violent protests this year after Trump appointed Musk to head up the Department of Government Efficiency to reform the federal government.
Musk posted in reply to a post about X’s issues:
Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.
I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.
As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.
Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.
I must be super focused on /xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.
As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2025
Excerpt from a report by the Oregonian on the X data center fire:
A battery fire broke out in a Hillsboro data center Thursday morning, prompting evacuation of the site but causing no injuries.
“Right about 10:20 this morning our crews got called to a fire involving a battery or batteries,” said Piseth Pich, a Hillsboro Fire & Rescue spokesperson. “When they arrived they found batteries inside a room inside what we understood to be a data center. The fire itself was contained to the battery set there and hadn’t spread anywhere else in that room.”
Public records indicate data center operator Digital Realty operates at that site. The social media company X operates a data center in an adjoining facility next door.
Technology news site Wired reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources, that X also leases space in the Digital Realty facility that experienced Thursday’s fire.
Online tracker DownDetector reported a spike in outages on X’s site shortly after the fire, which disruptions continuing through the afternoon.
Musk’s SpaceX is the bright spot in his portfolio, with several successful launches this month and a Starship launch planned for Tuesday from the newly incorporated city of Starbase, Texas.
It’s official: Starbase is now an incorporated city in Texas. With local governance in place, we are excited to continue building the best city for our community.
— StarbaseTX (@StarbaseTX) May 20, 2025
The ninth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 27 → https://t.co/Gufroc2kUz pic.twitter.com/nTc2x5NAlT
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 23, 2025
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