Tech billionaire Elon Musk has relinquished his duties heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is now running X and Tesla “24/7.”
In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Musk said he was now “back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.”
Musk was responding to a post about server issues at an X data center in Oregon.
“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” Musk posted.
“I must be super focused on 𝕏/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out. As evidenced by the 𝕏 uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made. The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not.”
The server issues were apparently the result of a battery fire at a data center in Hillsboro on Thursday. No-one was injured, but the fire caused stability and performance issues on X.
Musk’s tenure leading DOGE was due to end this month.
In the middle of last month, it was announced that DOGE savings had hit $150 billion, which equates to $931.68 per US taxpayer.
According to the website, the savings are a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”
Receipts posted on the website show over 7,000 terminated contracts, including individual contracts amounting to billions of dollars. One cancelled contract, for refugee resettlement, amounted to $2,902,177,562.
Of all the departments of the US government, Health and Human Services has so far generated the greatest cost-savings, followed by the Department of Education and the General Services Administration.
The Department of Commerce, Department of Justice and Department of Veterans Affairs are among the departments generating the least savings.