Grok, Gemini & ChatGPT Went Down At The Same Time; SpaceX Apologizes For Outage

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.

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. — WIRED @WIRED 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 SpaceX Is Sorry SpaceXAI 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. And we are taking corrective action to ensure this does not happen again. — SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI September 3, 2026 — Elon Musk @elonmusk And we are taking corrective action to ensure this does not happen again https://t.co/xaLI3jXMRR September 3, 2026 What Went Wrong? OpenAI 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. In Other News 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. 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 Cover: illustrative / Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-smartphone-on-table-3747132/ Tech /tech , Elon Musk /elon-musk , Outage /outage , AI /ai-1 , Gemini /gemini , ChatGPT /chatgpt , Grok /grok , AI Data Center /ai-data-center , Claude AI /claude-ai , Grok outage /grok-outage , ChatGPT outage /chatgpt-outage , Google Gemini outage /google-gemini-outage