TikTok Confirms Major Outage Resolved, Traced to Oracle Data Center
February 2, 2026
A significant outage impacting TikTok's US operations has been resolved, with the company confirming the disruption originated from a primary data center site operated by Oracle. The incident underscores the critical dependencies and potential vulnerabilities within the infrastructure of major social media platforms, which rely on complex, third-party data center ecosystems to serve their global user bases. The service disruption began on January 25, following a power outage at a US-based Oracle data center that hosted TikTok's operations. The power failure, triggered by a severe winter storm that swept across approximately 20 states, led to cascading network and storage issues at the facility. In a statement posted on X on February 1, TikTok's US entity, TikTok USDS JV, confirmed the platform was back to normal. The company stated, "We have successfully restored TikTok back to normal after a significant outage caused by winter weather took down a primary US data center site operated by Oracle." The statement further detailed that the incident impacted "tens of thousands of servers" essential for platform operations, with technical teams from both companies working around the clock to ensure a full restoration. The partnership between TikTok and Oracle, formalized under the "Project Texas" initiative, represents a $1.5 billion commitment to host US user data on Oracle's infrastructure. While it was previously known that TikTok utilized an Oracle data center in Texas, the company has not specified if this was the affected facility. The recent outage occurred just as the companies finalized the establishment of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, a structure that enables TikTok's continued US operations hosted on the Oracle Cloud platform, with Oracle holding a 15 percent ownership stake. This event highlights the operational risks cloud and hyperscale tenants face from single points of failure, even within Tier-1 provider infrastructure. For the data center industry, it serves as a stark reminder of the need for robust disaster recovery planning, geographic redundancy, and resilient power systems to mitigate the impact of extreme weather events on mission-critical digital services.
Source: datacenterdynamics
