{"slug": "grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage", "title": "Grok, Gemini & ChatGPT Went Down At The Same Time; SpaceX Apologizes For Outage", "summary": "Major AI chatbots Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini experienced simultaneous outages on Thursday morning, with Downdetector logging tens of thousands of complaints starting around 7:30 AM PT. SpaceXAI apologized for Grok's outage at its Memphis compute center, which lasted roughly three and a half hours, while OpenAI attributed ChatGPT's disruption to a routing error fixed by 8:17 AM PT. Anthropic's Claude also reported a partial outage the same morning.", "body_md": "Users across the globe were unable to access some of the major AI chatbots on Thursday morning. In a scary coincidence, SpaceX’s [Grok](/se/?q=grok+&model=article), OpenAI’s [ChatGPT](/se/?q=chatgpt), and Google’s Gemini all went down for a while. Even more of a freak coincidence is that these AI services suffered outages within the same window. Downdetector logged tens of thousands of complaints beginning around 7:30 AM PT, with OpenAI's ChatGPT bearing the brunt of user reports. Meanwhile, Grok, run by SpaceXAI, was down for roughly three and a half hours, according to the company's own status page.\n\n— WIRED (@WIRED)\n\n[ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.][https://t.co/bMKc1IN6Th][September 3, 2026]\n\n**SpaceX Is Sorry**\n\nSpaceXAI posted a statement acknowledging that the blip occurred at its Memphis compute center.* \"We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning,\"* the company wrote. Reposting the same post on X/Twitter, [Elon Musk](/se/?q=elon+musk&model=article) reassured that such instances won’t repeat in the future. He remarked.\n\nAnd we are taking corrective action to ensure this does not happen again.\n\n[— SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI)][September 3, 2026]\n\n— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\n\n[And we are taking corrective action to ensure this does not happen again][https://t.co/xaLI3jXMRR][September 3, 2026]\n\n**What Went Wrong?**\n\nOpenAI blamed a routing error that knocked out ChatGPT and Codex for some users. It remarked that a fix was in place by around 8:17 AM PT. There is a sneaking suspicion that an Azure East US ingress failure was recorded near 10:26 AM PT, a region several AI firms lean on heavily. Anthropic's Claude also reported a partial outage the same morning, though it stopped short of confirming a direct link to the Memphis facility.\n\n**In Other News**\n\n[Sam Altman](/se/?q=sam+altman&model=article) recently compared the water consumption of ChatGPT queries with production of a single California almond. Does his argument hold any merit? Read in the article below.\n\n**See Also**: [Sam Altman Says Almonds Suck More Water Than ChatGPT Queries; Internet ROFLs With Memes](/tech/113559/sam-altman-says-almonds-suck-more-water-than-chatgpt-queries-internet-rofls-with-memes)\n\nCover: illustrative / [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-smartphone-on-table-3747132/)\n\n[Tech](/tech),\n\n[Elon Musk](/elon-musk),\n\n[Outage](/outage),\n\n[AI](/ai-1),\n\n[Gemini](/gemini),\n\n[ChatGPT](/chatgpt),\n\n[Grok](/grok),\n\n[AI Data Center](/ai-data-center),\n\n[Claude AI](/claude-ai),\n\n[Grok outage](/grok-outage),\n\n[ChatGPT outage](/chatgpt-outage),\n\n[Google Gemini outage](/google-gemini-outage)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage", "canonical_source": "https://in.mashable.com/tech/113578/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage", "published_at": "2026-09-04 07:22:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-04 07:52:49.985346+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["SpaceXAI", "OpenAI", "Google", "Anthropic", "Elon Musk", "ChatGPT", "Grok", "Gemini"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-gemini-chatgpt-went-down-at-the-same-time-spacex-apologizes-for-outage.jsonld"}}