Finally, a positive benefit to failed capitalism!
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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Thank you for your service to the people doing this.
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.
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.
Unfathomably based.
It's not stealing, they are just training their cooper prediction model
Congrats you've made me laugh during my morning shit. 🥇
They're increasing GDP! Raising the price of copper by increasing demand
Oh wow! Copper is like $6 a pound now.
That's the problem with making RAM so expensive. It's not physically very big so you can fit a lot of it in a truck
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.
Reagan's crackheads have come home to roost.
Okay, so tech companies steal your info when you login, they can pluck software off your devices whenever they choose, AI will steal your face and your art should anyone put it online, oh and they get corporate welfare?... Anyone stealing from them, shooting CEOs, cutting down flock cameras, or shooting at Trump seems like the good guys in comparison.
two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies
What were these, trailers for ants!?
Be a modern day Robin Hood; steal copper from an AI data center
Can't steal from thieves
We'll be buying ram from guys in trenchcoats soon. Looking forward to that.
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...
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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.
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The perpetrators were with me at the time of the robbery playing video games.
Never thought I'd say this, but good.
You never thought you'd say "good"? Damn you have a bleak worldview.
What "thieves"? No one saw any "thieves". You can't prove anything.
I'm pretty sure the copper just did that
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.
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Nature is healing
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…
What's gonna be looted next, Flock cameras?!
You gotta love a good crowd-sourcing campaign.
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Good.
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