Did a data center cause a power outage at Six Flags Over Texas in May 2026? No, that's not true: A representative for Six Flags said a construction crew struck an underground power line, causing the outage. There's no evidence that any of the major regional data centers in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area had anything to do with the loss of power.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @fangsxbangs account on X on May 18, 2026. It read:
imagine having to tell kids that there's a power outage at the six flags bc the data center down the street is sucking the juice right out the roller coaster so they have to go down these super safe non scary stairs. wait we don't have to imagine. there's a data center 18 mi away
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @fangsxbangs on X.com.)
The original video is embedded below:
Power outage at Six Flags over the weekend 😳 pic.twitter.com/7shI23LBsa
-- Dallas Texas TV (@DallasTexasTV) May 18, 2026
Six Flags Over Texas is located in Arlington, Texas, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, a popular hub for data centers. The region has earned the nickname "Silicon Prairie."
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for these words: "Data center causes power outage at Six Flags Over Texas." The loss of power at the theme park on May 16, 2026, was widely reported, but the cause of the outage was not reported to be a data center.
In a May 19, 2026, email to Lead Stories, a Six Flags spokesperson said:
On Saturday [afternoon], an external construction crew made contact with an underground power line, which caused a temporary outage.
All guests were safely escorted off rides and attractions ...
It took approximately two hours to fully restore operations, with many rides and attractions reopening until the scheduled closure at 9 p.m. [local time].
On Sunday, the park resumed normal operations and opened as scheduled at 11 a.m.
