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Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What a weird crime.

This is like stealing hospital equipment, sure it's high value, but who are you going to sell it to that isn't going to ask questions?

I can see corporate espionage making sense, one AI company stealing chips from another AI company but it doesn't seem like these guys had a buyer.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    eyes homelab suspiciously

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah but even then, these are high-end server chips that require rack power supplies and industrial cooling. At most you'd want like two of them and even then you'd have to have a pretty beefy electrical connection, any more than that and the cops are going to be raiding your place thinking you're growing weed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    There's a black market for export to China but they'd need to already have contacts or involvement for that to work.

    Although ot would be way funnier to see unobtainium enterprise gear end up on ebay lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Stuff stolen in Alabama and Florida later found in Chicago... that's organized crime, so seems probable they'd have the contacts needed to fence the goods internationally.

    But they probably could sell RAM and SSDs at a discount on eBay right now.

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