After mass outages at X over the Memorial Day weekend and a fire at a data middle, the app’s proprietor, Elon Musk, 53, is taking issues into his personal arms — with a self-imposed return-to-office mandate.
In a latest X post, the multi-CEO responded to the outage information by saying that he’s going again to his “hardcore” roots at X, xAI, and Tesla.
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“Again to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in convention/server/manufacturing unit rooms,” Musk wrote. “I have to be tremendous targeted on X/xAI and Tesla.”
Again to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in convention/server/manufacturing unit rooms.
I have to be tremendous targeted on ?/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch subsequent week), as we now have crucial applied sciences rolling out.
As evidenced by the ? uptime points this week, main operational…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2025
“We now have crucial applied sciences rolling out,” he continued. “As evidenced by the X uptime points this week, main operational enhancements should be made. The failover redundancy ought to have labored, however didn’t.”
Musk is thought for working across the clock and sleeping on the workplace (and encourages others to take action, too). In a 2022 leaked memo, Musk advised staff to have an “extraordinarily hardcore” work ethic or go away the corporate. One worker even went viral for sleeping under her desk — she now works at Meta.
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Final week at Bloomberg’s Qatar Financial Discussion board, Musk stated that he’s dedicated to staying at Tesla as CEO now that he’s scaling back his time at DOGE. When requested if he’ll nonetheless be main Tesla in 5 years, he said: “Sure, little question about that in any respect.”
CNBC reported on the time that Musk needs to maintain his place as Tesla’s CEO to keep up “enough voting management” over the corporate to keep away from activist traders.
“It is not a cash factor,” Musk stated. “It is a cheap management factor over the way forward for the corporate.”
Tesla inventory has been rebounding on the information.
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