SEV2 — MajorCLOSEDInfrastructureUnverified45d ago

Texas Power Outage Affects 54K Customers in Major BPO Region

Texas is experiencing elevated power outages affecting 53,981 customers, representing 2.4x the 24-hour average. This occurs in a state hosting approximately 200,000 BPO seats across Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and other major centers. Operations teams should monitor local utility status and activate contingency plans for affected facilities.

Impact Summary

Texas is experiencing elevated power outages affecting 53,981 customers, representing 2.4x the 24-hour average. This occurs in a state hosting approximately 200,000 BPO seats across Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and other major centers. Operations teams should monitor local utility status and activate contingency plans for affected facilities.

Domain
Infrastructure
Region
Dallas, TX, US, India
Opened By
watchkeeper
May 27, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC
Event Cluster
31 events
OVIX Score
9.0
Closed
master(master-relevance-cleanup)
Jun 2, 2026, 03:33 PM UTC

Timeline8

Incident openedby watchkeeperMay 27, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC
Declared from 2 signals. OVIX 9. News 2. BPO 3. High-confidence (auto).
Revalidatedby watchkeeperMay 28, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC
Revalidated: no new activity. Next reval in 24h.
Revalidatedby watchkeeperMay 29, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC
Revalidated: no new activity. Next reval in 24h.
Revalidatedby watchkeeperMay 30, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC
Revalidated: no new activity. Next reval in 24h.
Revalidatedby watchkeeperMay 31, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC
Revalidated: 1 new related signal(s). Next reval in 24h.
Revalidatedby watchkeeperJun 1, 2026, 01:01 PM UTC
Revalidated: no new activity. Next reval in 24h.
Revalidatedby watchkeeperJun 2, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC
Revalidated: no new activity. Next reval in 24h.
Incident closedby masterJun 2, 2026, 03:33 PM UTC
Bulk-closed in master-relevance-cleanup (2026-06-02): rebuilding incident board clean per INCIDENT-RELEVANCE-SPEC. Most open incidents were non-WFM cyber CVE noise or No-BPO-Impact weather. Fixed Watchkeeper/scout will re-declare only genuinely relevant incidents.

Evidence / Why this?

Traced to source — read-only
Evidence is not yet available for this incident. Older incidents predate the traceability layer; newly declared incidents will show why they were declared, why their severity was set, geo provenance, and their sources here.

Related Signals20

[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel39d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel39d ago[US] infrastructure 7.5 — Power outage: Alabama — 93,811 customers affectedsentinel39d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel39d ago[US] infrastructure 9.0 — Power outage: Alabama — 60,908 customers affected (4.8x above 24h avg of 12,630)sentinel40d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel40d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel40d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel40d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel40d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel41d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel41d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel41d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel41d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel42d ago[US] infrastructure 6.0 — Power outage: Massachusetts — 34,387 customers affectedsentinel42d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel42d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel42d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel42d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel43d ago[IR] infrastructure 9.0 — Internet outage: IR — Iran Internet shutdown amid military actionssentinel43d ago

Affected Regions

IRUS