Jan 29, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
TikTok has suffered a data center outage in the US. The social media platform has confirmed that issues experienced with its app have been related to a power outage at one of its US data centers.
Posting on X, TikTok USDS said: "Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a US data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We’re working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We’re sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon.”
In a follow up post, TikTok USDS noted that the power outage had led to a network issue. "While the network has been recovered, the outage caused a cascading systems failure that we've be working to resolve together with our data center partner."
