{
  "id": 905587,
  "title": "PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-905587",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-14T20:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/1747213/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-provider"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A PBS affiliate, Nine PBS, is facing the potential loss of 50 terabytes of data stored in the cloud after its provider, Open Source Storage, went out of business. The data, which dates back 70 years and includes coverage of major events like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Flood of 1993, is at risk of being lost. Nine PBS has filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers, a data center provider, to regain access to the data. However, Iron Mountain has refused to release the data, citing that it only provides infrastructure and customers rent space for their servers and hardware. A judge has ruled that Iron Mountain must hand over any physical devices holding the data to Nine PBS, who must find a third party to recover the data within 30 days without sharing or corrupting other clients' data.",
  "summary": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: 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…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}