Also don't tell anyone about huge amounts of ram sticks that you can easily get out by hundreds.
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As someone who has actually had to service gear inside an equinox data center I'll tell you this: mostly unstaffed yes but more secure than a bank. I had I think six layers of security to get through including badge readers, man traps, palm scanners and combination locks.
You'd be amazed what a determined meth addict with a crowbar can do.
The new ones for AI etc. are nowhere near a bank level security.
Pretty easy to knock a hole in a concrete slab wall and have full access to the goods if somebody wanted too.
Looking at them I'm not even sure you'd need to break concrete, I'm pretty certain they're thin wall steel construction. A circular saw would make a nice doorway.
The amount of dust that would get poured into the room would almost certainly set off the fire suppression system, sucking the oxygen out of the room within 30 seconds of activation and suffocating anyone left inside.
Can you suck oxygen out of a room with a massive hole in it?
That's a no.
Also the fire suppression systems usually dump gases like nitrogen, argon, CO2 etc toreduce the O2 percentage in a room. They also don't work as well with a venting hole. A mask with a small O2 container like they use for climbing is recommended.
What is a man trap?
I don't know how legit this is, but I heard that datacenters also where people store their catalytic converters when they change to electric vehicles.
Shhh! They're gonna find out that every server rack contains one T206 Honus Wagner card to function.
Is that where the cat distribution system stores them before giving them to cars? It's way too complicated for me to understand
Must be how they use so much water, too. Makes perfect sense.
(Seriously under the hood of a bolt the only interesting thing there that isn't sealed in a metal box is three separate cooling fluids plus washer fluid. Just so much fluid.)
And dont forget the copper cables lining the walls, powering the systems. Absolute treasure trove in there.
I heard of a guy who not only sold the copper but also the palladium and gold and made a fortune. Now he drives a Mercedes.
I'd do it for a Ford.
It's a small step from "robotic guard dogs," to "armed robotic guard dogs."
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/robot-dog-patrols-data-centers-ai-infrastructure-buildout/
You know how much gold and platinum is in a robot attack dog? Free ammo too!
My money is on the crackheads with facepaint and sledge hammers
crackheads with face
paint
lemon juice
Seriously just gotta give the crackheads a slingshot, some rags and a bucket of paint and that dog is blind
Absolutely should not tell people that fire is its weakness, and damaging data centers hurts insurance companies more because of equipment replacements, and rebuilding structures costs + manpower and whatnot.
Don't fire them until after you've taken the ram
Uh, or not I am too high to backwards words that
they're also filled with gpus...
screw gpus, ram, you want the ram
A commom mistake bank robbers make is that they take more gold than they can carry, stuff is heavy. I feel GPUs are similar in their value to weight ratio, RAM is much lighter and easier to take a lot of. Imagine the value of a backpack full of GPUs vs one full of RAM sticks.
You're probably right that the value density of RAM sticks is better... But NVidia B300 GPUs are still ~$45,000 each. A backpack full is still quite a lot of money.
I think the lower density of gpus vs bars of gold would help you avoid that specific mistake...(you'll run out of room in your inventory before you get overencumbered)
Anyone know how much ram is in one of those security dogs?
Sadly the one by me has a small army of armed guards...
Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score!
this was such an incredible skit. one for the ages
Please details, it looks familiar but I cant remember and its bugging
The staff wont stop you but if you arent familiar with how to isolate electrical equipment with more than one source of power you might get yourself killed.
Pull all cable? Redundant psu not that complicated just two psu.
Racks most people could probably manage but then you're ignoring all the goodies in the cooling and electrical distribution equipment. Think ram is expensive? Try pricing the support equipment.
I think this about steal not for resell but for use. And normal people not use high power equipment.
Just rob a computer store theres way less security.
I worked inside a data center that had HIPPA servers. There are probably 6 of us in there at most. But everything is bolted to the ground and we had so many locked gates that by the time you pull enough servers off the rack to make sense, the cops would have already been there.
Honestly the data in the servers are more valuable than the metals inside.
The DCs where my stuff is stored? You're not getting in. It's just not happening.
Right?
I'm responsible for a bunch of systems in there - inclusibg specialized hardware - and I'm not allowed anywhere near it.
I've seen it once or twice, by special permissin only, and with an escort.
Whoever thought of the meme probably doesn't work in tech. A brand-new AI datacenter is not going to be left unguarded. Doubly so if there's government data being stored or processed within it.
I’m not allowed anywhere near it.
I’ve seen it once or twice, by special permissin only, and with an escort.
Exactly this. We're in places with concrete tank traps out front and retina scanners and guards behind the glass and all that craziness -- but aside from the tank traps it's all second-hand info from one of the 4 people I know - of thousands - who can actually go onsite and get in. If he doesn't send the change request beforehand, and it's all approved and whatnot, the guards will NOT enable the door. No tools in/out, no 3rd-party media out, etc.
Like, really, man, no one's getting in. I guess that means I get downvotes; I dunno.
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