There's a book called The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age [1] that features a story like this, was that the book?

Apparently there are tons of these stories [2] [3], many of them probably urban legends.

But there was one last year that was definitely real [4], when a cleaner removed power to a freezer holding decades of samples, apparently because they were annoyed by an alarm sound it was making.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227607-the-devouring-fu...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5yrs1...

[3] https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-techn...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-coll...