Nine PBS Sues to Recover 50TB Archive Held by Iron Mountain After Cloud Provider Collapse

Nine PBS, a public television station based in St. Louis, is engaged in a legal dispute to retrieve 50 terabytes of archival footage after its cloud service provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), ceased operations. The contract with OSS lapsed without renewal, resulting in unexpected data loss. Following this, OSS's website became inactive, and the state of Colorado marked the company as delinquent. Although Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against OSS in Denver District Court, the proceedings were halted upon discovering that the archive was stored at Iron Mountain Data Center in Colorado. Initially, Iron Mountain consented to return the data but later retracted, asserting that OSS owned the servers. Nine PBS is now seeking a court order to compel Iron Mountain to release the archive, and a judge has mandated that Iron Mountain preserve the data.