Tesla sent staff a notice on Friday morning that the company had been impacted by a 'Windows Host Outage,' according to the memo obtained by BI.
A photo of Teslas cars on the production line of the company's Austin, Texas Gigafactory.Getty/ Suzanne Cordeiro Tesla halted some production lines due to a global IT outage early Friday morning. The outage, linked to an issue at CrowdStrike, affected servers and manufacturing devices, Tesla told staff. The IT outage has caused issues across the globe as many Windows systems were taken offline.
A spokesperson for Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was quick to make light of the global outage on X, boosting a meme that had the caption: 'Everything else is down, but this app still works.' But he later responded to a post from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on social media to say that the issue, which impacted Windows, 'gave a seizure to the automotive supply chain.
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