MySpace Victim of Calif. Power Outages

MySpace was inaccessible for nearly 12 hours beginning Sunday night, as a power outage in its data center crippled the popular social networking site's ability to handle web traffic. Beginning at about 6:40pm Pacific, a message from the sites founder Tom Anderson greeted users explaining the situation. At the time, Anderson thought the site could be back up within the hour, however it finally returned around 6:00am Pacific Monday.

The outage is likely due to power issues related to the ongoing heat wave in Southern California. Nearly 175,000 homes lost power in Los Angeles over the weekend as power grids struggled to cope with the overwhelming demand. Los Angeles is not the only city to have power troubles: other cities across California have had similar problems. News Corp, the parent company of MySpace, had not publicly commented on the outage.