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Just nod and smile (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

One thought keeping me up at night is, if I were to destroy/damage a datacenter, and was found guilty, is there a way to not pay for the damages? Could I just get a life sentance instead of paying

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    For some of them, I think each rack costs like in the millions. A giant AI datacenter will have tonnes and tonnes of them. Do you think you could ever pay back even the tiniest fraction of 1 billion $?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yea but they'd still put me in eternal debt, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    No, that's what bankruptcy is for. But of course, they won't make you pay damages, you're too poor and they're not stupid. Once damage goes above $X it becomes a felony charge and they'll make an example out of you so that no one else is brave enough to copy you

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I fully expect to see an execution happen in my lifetime for someone destroying a data center.

    It'd be preferable for their hardware to be redistributed to people who could use it for open source things, but I'll accept burning down or killdozering.

    Incidentally if you steal a bunch of super thick copper wiring from a data center construction site, strip it all down, and melt the copper into ingots, nobody asks questions about where you got the copper at the scrap place you sell it to. So make sure you don't do things like that.

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