Musk Admits That Shutting Down Twitter’s Sacramento Service Center Was ‘Catastrophic’
It’s safe to say that Musk has taken on a “know-it-all” approach when it comes to running Twitter. Back in December, he declared that Twitter’s Sacramento data center was redundant and told hesitant employees to close it down to save money. The decision led to an outage.
Musk told the BBC that shutting down the data center in late December was one of the hardest things he’s had to do as Twitter boss.
“I thought the server centers were redundant but there were in fact a lot of things that were hardcoded to this one server center. And so we shut it down, it was quite catastrophic,” the Twitter CEO said. “We lost a lot of functionality and we sort of really rushed to put it back.”
