"Eco-friendly" Lithium kills Ministry Environment data

damn, that doesn't sound good.
did nothing else catch fire or get hurt or destroyed by it?
also lithium actually is far from eco friendly, it is one of the most poluting resources on the world especially when also including the mining, industry and short life time before they explode like that. a better option would be tape which wouldn't need electricity constantly, it also is the most durable, cheap and high capacity storage if we can find a tape drive for free or cheap or get one from someone.
for power storage, using a flywheel or gravity works better. basically a clock powering the computer when needed.

also did things remain, and what kind of things?
what kind of storage did it use?
since if it was a hdd or such perhaps the data can still be recovered or parts can be used for a mechanical turbine.
ofcource what kind of things where lost and where was this computer hosted? also as in 24/7 acces or only acces by one person regularly

if it only caused a power loss and the electronics still work, then we might be able to get back the lost info by scanning the disk for removed files, just as long as the computer hasn't been used to much since we have a chance worth trying, essentially when a file is written to cache or temporarily and then removed they still leave the files, the same goes for if the drive or os got corrupted since often it is only the os which truly corrupts in such a case, so the files are still there.