Would they maintain their own private off-site backup or would they be in a cluster with other government agencies or renting out from a commercial operation?

The cost would be massive for you or I to utilise such services, less so for an agency, and it certainly isn’t difficult.

I understand science is generally always under funded and there’s probably some oligarch skimming off of their budget, but I still don’t see this being the win they think it is in any form. I can only hope the climate data is not lost to all time.