{"id":260698,"date":"2026-08-14T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:03:54","slug":"pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>As reported this week by <a href=\"https:\/\/current.org\/2026\/08\/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data\/?wallit_nosession=1\">Current<\/a>, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS says that its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain\u2019s Denver data centers to store the channel\u2019s data. However, OSS is being unresponsive, and Nine PBS says Iron Mountain has refused to release its data.<\/p>\n<p>The data in question includes the station\u2019s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, East St. Louis\u2019 history, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.flood\/the-great-flood-of-1993\/\">The Great Flood of 1993<\/a>, and over 11,000 files, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/07\/29\/st-louis-pbs-archives-denver-data-center-lawsuit\/\">The Denver Post<\/a> reported in July. The lawsuit claims that \u201cmost\u201d of the data is \u201cunique and irreplaceable,\u201d according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2026\/08\/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2026\/08\/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. 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