Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.
Blackmarket resale where?
Resell to the next data center project, Re-steal it from there afterwards. Infinite money pump glitch!
The mafia will have those copper coils at another construction site the next day.
Good.
The comment I came in to make sure existed. Thank you for doing the good work.
What “thieves”? No one saw any “thieves”. You can’t prove anything.
I’m pretty sure the copper just did that
Or maybe a goose did it, they do things like that sometimes, just watch an untitled goose game let’s play…
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.
It’s not stealing, they are just training their cooper prediction model
They’re increasing GDP! Raising the price of copper by increasing demand
Congrats you’ve made me laugh during my morning shit. 🥇
I’m happy to contribute!
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.
You wouldnt steal a data center
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.
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 :)
You’re right! Thank you friend!
Stealing from evil corporations is definitely some people’s religion.
capitalism seems more like a cult all the time now that you mention it.
Nature is healing
They sure the LLM didn’t just mis-count the inventory?
There are three As in “Strawberry”. Let’s count.
StRawberry
StrAwberry
and there you have it.St. Rawberry
Robin Hoods in action.
I mean, that’s where all the copper and expensive equipment is. Why would thieves go anywhere else?
One stop shop
Clickbait circlejerk slop. Every construction site is a target for thieves. This is just low effort clickbait made to pander to the anti-datacenter circlejerk, you could at least have linked instead to the business insider article this is ripping off.
- The data center bubble is driving the up cost of copper, copper futures and copper scrap to meme stock levels.
- Higher copper scrap prices are driving up the amount of copper theft to meme crime levels.
- Thus data centers have a direct causal relationship with copper theft.
- So no, it’s not an “anti-data center” circle jerk.
Ok and you put more thought into the framing of this story than the author of the vice post(I will not call that an article) did. If you think there isn’t an anti-datacenter circlejerk and this wasn’t bait for it I don’t know what to tell you. High value cargo theft did not start because of datacenters, but you definitely only heard about this one because of the huge appetite for anti-datacenter news.
That’s what I mean by circlejerk. Things that are not actually particularly exceptional are being treated like major news stories because people crave confirmation bias and schadenfreude. This vice post is one of the most transparent examples of the outrage economy that I’ve seen in a while.
You can pretend that the piss you’re drinking is water but you can’t pretend that AI and Datacenters aren’t subsidizing the meth renaissance.
Do you think pretending that thieves doing what they have always done is now epic and based is somehow hurting AI companies?
No.
Im making fun of people who defend multi-billion dollar companies online. As the person I was responding to did.
You’re so based for standing up for the clickbait rag that is modern vice. Even if you have the reading comprehension of a grade schooler.
Only rag here is the one that you’re on.
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.
If you see someone stealing RAM, no you didn’t
Snitches get switches?
only Cisco switches.
As long as they share
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.
Nah, plant a protected species.
Around here people use bats. Like the ones with wings. Once they’ve made a roost it’s illegal to bother them
Kudzu friends, nothing can stop that in time
Again, not a protected species, also, don’t fucking plant kudzu.
Plant a state and federally environmentally protected species, native to the area. Plant a bunch of them and then report the plants to local protective agencies and environmentalist groups. Do your best to hide the fact that these are transplanted plants.
Plant kudzu and all you’re doing is annoying the construction company, forcing them to pave over everything.
Do you believe we should be allowed to run open source / weight LLMs like deepseek locally, for our own gain, even though they too have been indirectly trained on our comments / articles / copyrighted books?
Is that a genuine question that you want to know the answer for, or is it a setup for calling the person you replied to a hypocrit when they say “yes”?
I’m honestly curious. I generally agree with everything you said except the IP argument.
spoiler
I see a conflict between the argument that training LLMs on publicly visible comments (or books or articles) is stealing, and open weight LLM models. If intellectual property is interpreted like that, it will make free LLMs illegal to use, since the original creators of the training data have not licensed this use (even though this data is publicly readable on websites).
I would consider it the worst possible outcome if only the AI corporations would be able to profit from the global treasure of our accumulated knowledge. And I suspect that is what is going to happen because they can lobby for some kind of broad licensing deal and pay them off, but for open source it will not work. I believe that is how they will monopolize AI. Then they will truly have stolen it, because they have taken it away from everybody else.
I’m sure everyone will have varying opinions on it, but if these models were fully open-sourced I’d have less of an issue. What does it for me is that these companies were unwilling to pay creators to use their work in the training data, instead choosing to pirate it to create expensive and locked down AI products which they expect us to pay for.
Of course. The cat’s already out of the bag on that one. That data belongs to the public, not a handful of companies.
He will be remembered for that reaction and his contribution to pig husbandry
I don’t even know who that is. I just know that one picture.
Let’s just say it was a colorful marriage.
