Datacenter Incident Knocks Out All Grok Models, Announced Like a Printer Outage
tetsuoai · x · 2026-09-22
tetsuoai quotes xAI's status note: "A datacenter incident is affecting all Grok models. The team is investigating." He jokes that an entire family of AIs going dark gets announced with the corporate calm of a printer outage — "we live in a sci fi novel and this is the support ticket." The episode highlights xAI's concentrated inference infrastructure risk.
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