Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

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[–] [S] 75 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Remember: if you see someone stealing from a data center, no you didn't!

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    [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Thieves? Or redistrubtors of natural resources?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's the inverse of the children yearning for the mines, it's the copper yearning for the thieves.

    Look I'm not a scientist but I think it's basically 2 of the stages of the water cycle, for copper.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly given how much copper may have been recycled since the Copper Age I'm gonna hazard a guess that your joke isn't even all that wrong. There's a bronze statue in I want to say Germany that was made back in the 1600s that we're pretty sure a good bit of the copper and bronze was stolen from ancient graves.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The modern Robin Hood does not give to any poor but themselves, yet do us all a great service in stifling more harm.

    Bless them all.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's funny to see this happening to data centres but if we all are honest with ourselves, copper thieves are one of the biggest scourges of the 21st century. I mean, there's a reason why internet companies write "FIBRE OPTIC NO COPPER" on their equipment.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    One of the engineers I used to work with started his career in South Africa 80s/90s building microwave bearer sites, he said if they didn't finish the site lock down and liven up the wave guide before they left for the weekend then when they got back on Monday all of the copper waveguide would have been stripped from the tower.

    In a totally unrelated case, when they were building a new extension to the rail system here in my home town they also had to liven up each section of the overhead power feeder each day or a member of one of the local outlaw motorcycle gangs would turn up in the middle of the night, cut the weights and haul the cable onto the back of a ute.

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    A data center is getting built near me. I was taking my dogs to walk on a local trail and they’ve completely shut down the public road with private security guards to keep people away from their data center. Had to find an alternate route to the trail.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    What a timeline. Palantir deploying AI missiles to prevent copper theft while water warriors plant bamboo next to data centers.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How do I support these endeavors?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Give your local copper thieves maps to your local data center construction and a fresh pair of wire cutters. And an empty dog leash so they can say their dog ran in there and they're just looking for their dog.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Can someone please liberate some RAM...

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Wait, i can only get so erect

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Thieves? These are heroes.

    Heroes.

    They are helping humanity.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Investigators are full of shit. Those guys were clearly picking up trash.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Love to see it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    oh no anyway

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I honestly didn’t know the worth of copper had gone up so much.

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    Oh no how unfortunate.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    This is the way

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I am an American citizen, and I approve this message. 👍

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