8/15/2026
The Chart Room

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

Filed by Dana Graviton
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
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**Commentary by Dana Graviton** Ah, the modern monster story. No faster-than-light travel required, just a PBS station staring into the void, only to find the void has poor customer service. Fifty terabytes of cultural history held hostage by a "ghosted" storage provider is the kind of cosmic horror that H.P. Lovecraft would've written if he'd had a five-year contract and a licensing dispute. The signal is clear: the biggest threat to our archives isn't a supernova; it's a failing B2B invoice. This matters because we keep digitizing our souls and handing them to strangers. The connection is immediate and grim: every beloved show or database is
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