By Craig Hale
Publication Date: 2026-02-02 13:05:00
- It took TikTok six days to fully restore services after an Oracle outage crippled parts of the app
- Severe winter weather caused a power outage and several subsequent losses
- This came the same month TikTok’s US ownership was finalized
TikTok has confirmed The most recent outage was due to a power outage at one of its main US data centers, operated by Oracle, which caused knock-on damage to tens of thousands of servers.
The company explained how a “major infrastructure issue” on Jan. 26 resulted in “multiple errors, slower loading times, or expired requests,” resulting in some creators’ videos not showing views or likes.
Although the root cause was identified and resolved fairly quickly, it took almost a week for TikTok to fully restore connections in some regions.
TikTok outage due to power issue at Oracle data center
The company has since confirmed that the power outage at the Oracle data center was caused by severe winter weather.
“The winter storm caused a power outage…