Remember, if you see someone stealing from a data center.... no, you didn't.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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A modern-ish datacentre AI GPU is worth well into five figures on eBay. The copper wire and "infrastructure equipment" is small potatoes compared to that. Like 100kg of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs would be worth more than those two whole truckloads.
I'd imagine that'd be easier to track with serial numbers and such, though.
Sandpaper and reflashing solve the two ways that's performed though.
Electronic component fencing has been a thing for a while (especially to regimes who aren't supposed to have them)
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oh no plz....dont....stop
Good.
No they didn't - they were with me rocking some Halo CE splitscreen and gorging on Mountain Dew and pizza. It was an all-nighter, so they wouldn't have had the time to be anywhere else.
Holy shit, the memes came true.
Don't let your memes be dreams
Maybe it was Sony. I hear they are revoking games people purchased. Maybe they expanded it to supplies paid for by taxes.
Ok people, clean em out.
not all heroes wear capes…
So is the future going to be more mad max like but instead of oil it would be it equipment?
In Mad max some things were kinda cool and some things made sense. Our future is probably going to be more stupid, half assed, and idiocracy-like.
The memes worked!
I want to rob a data center, I’ve been looking for work and I’ve been unemployed for months
Pick me up some GPUs and RAM while you’re in there. I’ll give you the normal market prices.
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So a single trailer is worth $650,000ish? That's worth a try I reckon.
What size vehicle would be needed to pull one I wonder?
They are tractor-trailer trailers. The article says $300,000 worth of copper and the Internet says that should weigh 53,000 lbs.
Good.
I say give them maps, give them gear, and access cards if possible. Let's help out ahhahah
Oh no, those poor thieves.
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