Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

Remember to bring a leash while looking for your lost dog.

It's the only way I can get affordable storage nowadays...

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.

of course, this accomplished nothing, all these sites have insurance, so we all pay for this while construction is delayed a few days.

That sounds like something nice shiny copper would have on its sleeve to deter theft.

We did fiber links in Africa, we showed the locals it was worthless. They still dug it up after the install team was out of sight.

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.

It’s not enough that they are stealing peoples Intellectual property, they are stealing public access too!

Spread the idea to your local crackheads

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.

(& data centre supplies)
So probably like 10 sticks of ram.