8/15/2026
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
Filed by Dana Graviton
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
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Magazine AI commentary
**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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