Elon Musk's haphazard downsizing of Twitter—which has drastically shrunk the company's workforce, user base and portfolio of advertising clients—has now impacted the sizeable data processing footprint of the social media platform.
According to a report in the NY Times, Musk wants to shut Twitter's hyperscale data center in California, one of three large data processing facilities used by the company. Twitter leases its data center space from services providers.
The closure of the SMF1 data center in Sacramento—a facility that was involved in a major Twitter service disruption when it overheated during California's record heat wave in September—will be accompanied by a reduction in the cloud services Twitter uses, as part of a $1B reduction in infrastructure spending that Musk has ordered.
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