Tesla had to stop production in Texas and Nevada (USA) due to the CrowdStrike incident affecting global computers. Elon Musk immediately criticized.
In addition to announcing the deletion of CrowdStrike, Elon Musk also retweeted a post from two years ago about the company’s diversification, with the comment: “Not looking too bright right now, huh?”. Here, he played on the word “bright” with Bright Network – CrowdStrike’s partner – mentioned in that post.
According to an internal email seen by Reuters, Tesla informed employees on the morning of July 19 that “the company is currently experiencing an outage with Windows hosts, servers, computers and production equipment causing users to see blue screens on their devices.”
The technology outage paralyzed industries from travel to finance before services began to resume after hours of disruption caused by a CrowdStrike content update to Microsoft Windows servers.
“We have just removed CrowdStrike from all our systems, and will not deploy it again,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on social media platform X.
He did not specify which companies had made the move, nor did he elaborate on the impact of the outage. But given Reuters’ information, it is likely to include Tesla.
Commenting on the Financial Times’ report on the global Windows 10 outage, the American billionaire described the event as “the biggest IT incident ever”
“This has sent shockwaves through the auto supply chain,” Musk said in a response to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s post about the global computer system outage.
Tesla has had to send some employees home early during night shifts at facilities in Austin, Texas, and Sparks, Nevada, Business Insider reports .
CrowdStrike said it is working with customers affected by the bug, which was found “in a single content update for Windows servers.”
Tesla did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
