Nine PBS Sues Iron Mountain Data Centers Over Access to Archived Footage

Nine PBS filed the lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28 in Denver District Court, seeking access to its archived data. According to Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, Nine PBS says its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain's Denver data centers to store the channel's data. However, OSS has become unresponsive, and Nine PBS says Iron Mountain has refused to release the data.

The data in question includes 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. Nine PBS described the material as unique and irreplaceable.