
The comment I came in to make sure existed. Thank you for doing the good work.
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
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.
Honestly, logistical problems with the weight are gonna be one of the first hurdles. It's way more than you would even think.
Some say that even if every meth head in the city showed up there would be copper left over.
Nature is healing
It's not stealing, they are just training their copper prediction model
They're increasing GDP! Raising the price of copper by increasing demand
Aren't these data centers built on our land, right next to our homes, using our water and electricity, funded by selling our data (that we didn't consent to), and the profits all go to giant corporations, not us? Fuck 'em. I hope they all get raided and stripped bare...
And if you plant some bamboo on the property, it REALLY becomes a problem for the data centers.
If you see someone stealing RAM, no you didn't
Snitches get switches?
Young entrepreneurs just pulling at those little bootstraps, Regan would be proud of their ambition in advancing their station.
Oh my god, that's terrible! Where are these construction sites so that people can avoid them?
Oh no, the corporations which stole immeasurable quantities of our data to train their for-profit AI models are having their building materials stolen. My heart bleeds.
uplifting news
Easy Mode Above Ground Copper Mines
I've read science fiction books in which humans scavenged the machines' supplies like rodents scavenging from a kitchen, and now it's reality.

Finally, a positive benefit to failed capitalism!

This is TERRIBLE! WHY can't they Target SCHOOLS or Homeless shelters INSTEAD?
-Republican Voters!
Thank you for your service to the people doing this.
Remember guys, snitches get stitches.
Snitches don't get free second-hand enterprise switches
Stop. Don’t. Come back.
Imagine starting to work from the inside and weld things wrong, install wiring just, "good enough," knowing full well one of the plugs will start a fire, shit inside the cement and make shit laced walls.
Construction workers can still get paid and inspection workers can be in on it too. It happens over and over again and eventually it becomes something that's not cost feasible to keep trying to rebuild knowing there will be a failure.
Remember, if you see someone stealing from a data center.... no, you didn't.
Can't steal from thieves
Robin Hoods in action.
oh no plz....dont....stop
While the AI revolution threatens to kill countless jobs, leaving potentially millions of Americans in the lurch, maybe all those future jobless Americans can turn to the booming data center theft industry. Maybe AI is a job creator?
Ah yes, my retirement plan from the tech sector…
Be a modern day Robin Hood; steal copper from an AI data center
Copper theft has always followed expensive infrastructure. AI data centers are just the newest high-value targets.
I was waiting for this
Hell yeah
I wish them all the copper they can get from them!
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