Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline

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Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data
centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN
that another outage elsewhere could result in the service going dark for
some of its users.

Twitter, like all major social media platforms, relies on data centers,
which are essentially huge warehouses full of computers, including servers
and storage systems. Controlling the temperature in those centers is
critical to ensuring the computers don't overheat …

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