PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

A PBS affiliate in St. Louis, Nine PBS, is in a dire situation after its cloud storage provider went belly up, leaving the station without access to 50 terabytes of crucial data. This includes the channel's television shows, videos, and other historical records dating back seven decades. In a legal battle filed this week in Denver District Court, Nine PBS is seeking assistance from Iron Mountain Data Centers, the data center provider, to retrieve its lost information.

According to the lawsuit, Open Source Storage (OSS), Nine PBS's former cloud storage provider, is unresponsive and Iron Mountain has refused to hand over the data. The data at stake comprises the station's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, East St. Louis' history, the Great Flood of 1993, and over 11,000 files. The Denver Post reported in July that most of this data is considered unique and irreplaceable.