Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

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    Young entrepreneurs just pulling at those little bootstraps, Regan would be proud of their ambition in advancing their station.

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      Regan sounds like some sort of sect of veganism. They refrain from consuming animal products unless the animal signed a consent form, which is prolly what’s coming with Neuralink. People can’t handle same sex marriage, so what happens when animals consent? I’m not even a furry, I’m a foot fetishist, but ethical bestiality is coming in the next generation, I would say. And damn is Fox News going to implode!

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            Lucky, we’re taking pre-orders now! The tech will be ready to go in just two years!!!

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              It’s two weeks, silly. That’s how you con an entire country. You just keep the people living paycheck to paycheck thinking it’s all going to change if they just work hard enough to push through this next bit. That’s what’s keeping the machine working, where y’all are cogs n gears n shit

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      The comment I came in to make sure existed. Thank you for doing the good work.

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    Don’t tell them there’s copper and other precious metals they can steal in AI datacenters. Also, most definitely DO NOT tell them most AI datacenters are completely unstaffed and easily accessible.

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      Copper by weight is cheap as hell. RAM & NVME drives are a WAY better ROI. It wouldn’t even be worth carrying the whole server.

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        Copper is way easier to fence and way easier to steal. The RAM and NVME aren’t getting installed until the building has functional security. The mile of copper wire to run power is locked in a trailer and might not even have a permanent fence around it yet.

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      Bro, watch/read Catch Me if You Can. Frank Abagnale is one of my heroes, like Joseph Smith is, and for the sane reason Christ is our lord. The audacity of a man in reflective vest, hardhat, with ladder and/or clipboard to walk confidently into a building to waltz up to the seventeenth floor to steal state secrets? Well, I’ve only done that four times, so it’s not like I’m an expert or anything.

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        You know that all those Frank Abagnale stories came from Frank Abagnale and we’re all bullshit, right?

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        My dad tells a story about an indicent in the 1980’s, I think, where a couple of gentlemen went to Governer’s Island and stole an 8ft diameter bronze screw. (Ship propeller)

        I don’t think they had vests, but they most likely just drove up with a flatbed like they had every right to be there. Probably even asked for help loading it.

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          Yea, it’s the confidence that those gentlemen were artists at.

          Confidence arts

          Con arts

          That’s why it’s called that

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      They wouldn’t steal a… oh wait they did.

      Turns out some of this is showing up at other datacenters… Now weve already set precedent that stealing intellectual property isnt stealing if its for training models or some such bullshit… Time to find out if we can legalize piracy in the physical sense as long as were ‘using it differently.’

      Turns out were just a few small steps away from the east india company era again.

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        Or maybe a goose did it, they do things like that sometimes, just watch an untitled goose game let’s play…

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    This is very unfortunate. There is a tremendous amount of copper in these data centers, thieves would be able to steal so much copper from data center job sites. It’s frightening to think about it

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      Not just copper. These server racks are so unfortunately loaded up with parts and components worth a lot of money on the open market. Very unfortunately they have enterprise grade SSDs worth thousands and AI accellerater cards worth 10s of thousands.

      And these poor starving companies very unfortunately don’t have the funds to hire a lot of security staff. It’s sadly usually just one guy.

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      Honestly, logistical problems with the weight are gonna be one of the first hurdles. It’s way more than you would even think.

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      Why there’s so much copper they can make 1.3 million dollars from it and then go to a country that won’t excommunicate them.

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        I think the word you were looking for is extradite, which is sending someone home/to the country where crime was committed, to face their justice system.

        Excommunication is kicking someone out of a religion/the church, specifically christian afaik, though not all use that word :)

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    I’ve read science fiction books in which humans scavenged the machines’ supplies like rodents scavenging from a kitchen, and now it’s reality.