Free market at work. Nothing to see here.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Actually I kind of hope they did
Looks like most people in here both, didn’t actually read that everything was recovered, and also don’t understand freight theft.
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.
eyes homelab suspiciously
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.
I’m hosting an illegal Minecraft server
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.
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.
Maybe they are stealing them to delay/sabotage a data center. And increase freight insurance rates.
Sad that they got their shit back.
That RAM won’t work in my gaming PC!
It is going into cartel data centers!
good on them
I hooe they take all the rest too.
Not the same, but quite close lol. I was ahead of my time many months ago when I made it.
https://lemmy.zip/post/67122146?scrollToComments=trueOld and busted: Software piracy
New hotness: Hardware piracy
We had hardware piracy back in the day, when there were CPUs you may have been able to unlock extra cores on.
Then the companies started lasering them off so that was no longer possible.
Rob GPUs from the rich, give GPUs to the poor
They’re not even useful to anyone else.
What’s the melt value tho?
Lol, rob gpus from the rich to sell gpus to the rich.
I love boosters two
$1.3 million
“Just installed 37,000 TB of DDR5 to my rig.”
It was only 1.3mil in memory l… So by delivery truck did you mean 1 small FedEx blister pack?
Really disappointing to hear that the equipment was recovered.
Plot twist: the thieves were from Nvidia, who is going to give a credit toward the stolen hardware to Open AI and Anthrophic, who’s then going to lease the stolen hardware from…
Big truck for one stick of RAM
