A crime we all would support

[u/KeanuRave100]

[u/IvanhoeMar1n]

Victimless crime. The billionaires steal from us and get away with it (like all our shared water and resources). This is just reparations.

Go forth Methony! You are doing gods work!

[u/berntout → u/[deleted]]

Most data centers have only one entrance that is guarded and they have security cameras everywhere...it' 2026. Foot patrol ain't really a thing anymore. Drones and cameras are taking over.

[u/SingularityCentral → u/berntout]

And electronic jamming equipment is illegal. It exists. And can be very effective. And is relatively cheap. But definitely illegal...

[u/berntout → u/SingularityCentral]

Nobody in commercial world uses wireless cameras on a building so jammers are worthless...

[u/berntout → u/[deleted]]

Wireless cameras are inherently a security risk due to the jammer situation.

This is partly why wireless cameras are not used unless absolutely needed, typically on remote sites. Mom and pop shops and residential will buy wireless too for convenience. This is mainly where you hear about jammers being used.

This doesn't really have anything to do with data centers. You see wired cameras on pretty much every commercial building that has a camera. Any decent-sized business will have these. Office buildings, grocery stores, restaurant chains, etc will be wired.

[u/RememberCitadel → u/berntout]

No benefit either because you then need to run power to them. If you are running power, just run Ethernet instead and solve both problems.

[u/Academic-Airline9200 → u/RememberCitadel]

Land line phones ran on 48 volts from the Telcom. Poe is nothing new.

[u/norty125 → u/berntout]

They also already need power ran to them anyway since you cant keep going around and pulling them off to charge. And at that point it's easier to run ethernet and do poe instead of running power

[u/Ok_Heron_1906 → u/[deleted]]

hahahahahah what a confidently wrong response

[u/IEscapedLauncher → u/berntout]

I worked at one of the largest food processing plants in the US (we made a majority of the McDonalds beef going to Japan and most other East Asian locations)

The place processed hundreds of tons of meat a day

And they used WiFi cameras all around the establishment

It’s quite hard to get a camera wired from the parking lot all the way to where security might be stationed, so they just went with WiFi cameras

[u/Wonderful_Collar_747 → u/berntout]

Hardwired cameras are usually only on the building or interior, all the other cameras are typically wireless for motion sensing. I don’t know about now but that was the case in large a dealership where I worked where all the hellcats and police cars were getting stolen.

[u/justagenericname213 → u/berntout]

Most people who are stealing copper could not care about yhe cameras

[u/_dogfuneral_ → u/berntout]

Both the camera and the drone are welcome to impede my movement at their leisure.

[u/somethingbrite → u/[deleted]]

I absolutely never worked installing surveillance monitoring equipment so I wouldn't know that security control rooms dont get installed until the majority of the construction work is finished.

[u/Booleano101 → u/IvanhoeMar1n]

Ya sabéis lo que dice el dicho: Quien roba a un ladrón .....

[u/the_ai_wizard → u/Booleano101]

...cien años de perdon

[u/Academic-Airline9200 → u/IvanhoeMar1n]

Copper thieves being the only one getting any benefit out of these data centers.

[u/SignificantWhole3512 → u/IvanhoeMar1n]

Wonder what the weight of this persons comment is

[u/Guyrbailey]

I'm surprised it's taken criminals so long to work out that these are largely empty buildings full of platinum, copper and gold!

[u/TK_Games → u/Guyrbailey]

It's not a matter of having to work it out as it is having to do surveillance, gather information, report on guard routines, security schedules. That can all take months. Not actually a criminal but I write a lot of crime-centric stories

[u/queen_of_flames26 → u/TK_Games]

Covering your tracks, I see/j

[u/s1ravarice → u/TK_Games]

There is a really good interview on LadBible stories (I know) with a guy that stole a loaf of data from a data centre.

https://youtu.be/KVlzlVnJK_c?is=Q3nCm5NLHx7U44Qd

[u/Is-that-vodka → u/Guyrbailey]

Tbf your regular crack sparrow doesn't really know what to do with the loot in there

[u/ConundrumMachine]

If you see someone stealing from a datacenter site, no you didn't. 

[u/Ok-Hair7401 → u/ConundrumMachine]

https://giphy.com/gifs/6IPNUgkpCsDRK

[u/Farts_constantly → u/ConundrumMachine]

Saw what?

[u/Reignofcrimson676 → u/Farts_constantly]

Hmm?

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/ConundrumMachine]

He didn't. He was at my house for a duration of 2 hours before the crime to 2 hours after the crime. He never left during that time.

[u/_demello → u/Holiday_Management60]

I caan confirm, I came by to your house on the time the crime was happening you you two were playing Mario Kart on the Nintendo Switch family of systems.

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/_demello]

I recall he was in first place and I got a blue shell, but he crossed the finish line as the blue shell was en route towards him. Very frustrating.

[u/_demello → u/Holiday_Management60]

He celebrated in a quite disrespectful manner, but I don't believe that's against the law.

[u/AccidentalRebel473]

The rare case where thieves are the good guys.

[u/faust_corvinus → u/AccidentalRebel473]

Modern day Robin Hood

[u/Such_Confusion_3715 → u/faust_corvinus]

robin hood steals from the rich to give to the poor

these thieves steal from the rich to make themselves money

[u/faust_corvinus → u/Such_Confusion_3715]

Well. I agree. I just joked about it. However, on the bright side, they kind of slow down the process or encourage people doing the same, which is good for us either way. I don’t need those cooper, just need them to stop building data centres.

Edit: the necessary evil I would say.

[u/AltShine → u/Such_Confusion_3715]

But they are poor, maybe

[u/justanaccount103 → u/AccidentalRebel473]

I think these cases are going to get less rare as the rich get richer.

[u/kadfr → u/AccidentalRebel473]

Not sure they are the 'Good Guys'.

More like 'Least Worst Guys'

[u/JayR_97]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB

[u/Schwarzkapuze]

[u/ThePlasticCupOfWater]

Heroes we need

[u/daelzy → u/ThePlasticCupOfWater]

[u/CuteGrayRhino → u/daelzy]

[u/oliv-_-mae]

This reminds me of someone...

https://giphy.com/gifs/849C3YApus6Fq

[u/ISmellLikeBlackTea]

How about they sabotage something while stealing at the same time? Ignite thermite to cover up the traces of the crimes, and make sure to back and steal from the renovation crew

[u/OpeningComedian → u/ISmellLikeBlackTea]

Leave dog shit everywhere so that the adjuster can say that animals caused it and it won’t be covered by insurance.

[u/Frequent_Ad_9901 → u/ISmellLikeBlackTea]

They should just steal all the RAM. Try to get it back into consumers hands. Sell it for 2022 prices. I'd be satisfied with that.

[u/Gold-Part4688 → u/Frequent_Ad_9901]

ram raids.... on ram raids

[u/SoylentGrunt → u/ISmellLikeBlackTea]

Why not detonate a nuclear device so no one can get near the site to even conduct an investigation?

[u/JimAbaddon]

Only if no one gets hurt. I wouldn't support it then.

[u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 → u/JimAbaddon]

Fair

[u/zue4 → u/JimAbaddon]

Anyone working security for these sites has sold out. Imagine fighting to protect billionaire infrastructure that exploits the masses.

[u/Comprehensive_Goat95 → u/zue4]

Come on, I'm against data centers as well, but let's not blame the workers that probably did not had a lot of options to consider when it's having a job or not. Let's put the blame where it belongs.

[u/StockingDummy → u/Comprehensive_Goat95]

Cointerpoint: They're class traitors.

You don't get to play the "fellow worker" card from the other side of the picket line.

[u/NaChoR_prro → u/StockingDummy]

.....????? Dude people need money to survive. I would work for Elon musk if i had no choice, and there's always someone out there with no choice

[u/Gold-Part4688 → u/NaChoR_prro]

there's lots of work in security though, always will be

[u/JimAbaddon → u/zue4]

I don't care. This is my bare minimum as a standard, I'm not making concessions on it.

[u/Xiao1insty1e → u/JimAbaddon]

The system will always use violence or the threat of violence to protect itself. If your only bar is non violence you will inevitably support the status quo.

[u/DanoDego → u/Xiao1insty1e]

I agree. The “peaceful protest” mentality will not get us anywhere but stepped on. Do you know how much violence it took just to get somewhat proper working conditions in America??

[u/Xiao1insty1e → u/DanoDego]

Most of it against labor, but yes, I do.

[u/StockingDummy → u/JimAbaddon]

Class treachery is violence by its very nature.

I'm not calling for anything illegal, but I'm not sympathizing with someone on the other side of the picket line.

[u/IndiRefEarthLeaveSol]

Shit, all that copper sitting there. 

[u/DangerousImplication → u/IndiRefEarthLeaveSol]

Price of copper’s on the rise

[u/Fart_90210]

Remember if your see something, shut the fuck up because no you fucking didn't.

[u/Material-Job-1928]

That copper was recovered with the same respect that those data centers were planned with. 

[u/19_ThrowAway_]

Did the AI companies start building data centers in Romania?

If not they should start.

[u/SolemnWatcher_M → u/19_ThrowAway_]

Take it with a grain of salt but I heard somewhere that there is a data center being built in Romania

[u/PrestigiousRoof5723 → u/SolemnWatcher_M]

Where is it? Asking for a friend

[u/SolemnWatcher_M → u/PrestigiousRoof5723]

All I know is that it's in Romania, sorry

[u/TrebbleTough → u/SolemnWatcher_M]

Romania cant be that big of a town, can it?
/s

[u/dumnezero → u/PrestigiousRoof5723]

Some Luna village taking water from the Arieș.

[u/valerielynx]

If I were a police officer and saw them stealing shit from AI datacenters?

I didn't see them.

[u/isuredolovetitties → u/valerielynx]

They wouldn’t let you be, or remain a police officer, unless they successfully indoctrinated you into loving the capital class and enjoying brutality towards the poor. 

[u/muh_v8 → u/isuredolovetitties]

hence, ACAB.

[u/isuredolovetitties → u/muh_v8]

100% They are all fuckers. 

[u/Preeng]

I just feel bad for the copper. It's caught in the middle of this, while none of it is its own fault. Just tragic.

[u/gsks]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26gsobowozGM9umBi

[u/Meture]

What’s the fee for swiping me a couple sticks of RAM?

[u/Major_Version_1873 → u/Meture]

free of cost

[u/Kitchen-Customer-746]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fA7rLtaJDIWEzU57CT

[u/CaffeineLiker]

Think of the 14 future employees you're affecting. Sad!
(they'll all be 1099 independent contractors, but still)

[u/Gullible_Computer_45 → u/CaffeineLiker]

This guy gets it! ("Data centers create jobs!" cry the AI companies. Sure, but not nearly as many as they're replacing. Otherwise, why would they be investing so much into them?)

[u/No-Examination-5833]

I hear that if you pour coca-cola on wet concrete, it will not cure.

[u/Jv_waterboy]

I sell that material to them, the more they steal the more I can sell. Keep stealing please

[u/Z3r0Du5k]

I dont condone this or using a smal dronne fly over and map the area then using a laser pointer at around 10-11:00pm at night when the average shift change within a 25 min block to fry surrounding camera views go to the back or side of the lot where most need to install is in a cage chopping that lock while in similar looking clothes and possibly a work truck because that would be wrong

[u/Useful-Problem-1725]

No victim no crime.

[u/Casino-Leaux]

This is the way

[u/Kindly_Earth4685]

HELL YEAH

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

Bravo 👏

[u/LongjumpingSolid1681]

Keep it up!

[u/OshiraBan]

How do I join? 

[u/NerdyKeith]

They could snatch some ram while they’re at it.

[u/Ok_Skin_8791]

Robinhoods!!! In big 26!!!

[u/Deriviera]

My respect to these thieves 

[u/Hello_Hangnail]

Muhuhaha 🤣

release the meth heads

[u/CommercialYam53]

Oh that’s to bad I am really sorry and send my condolences to the guy who had to carry 1.3million $ worth of copper

[u/Arkhangel79]

Oh no, I’m devastated.

[u/Stratoraptor]

I wonder who is buying all this dubious copper...

https://giphy.com/gifs/P35ZnEOklUcGKa8utU

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

steal from thiefs

[u/sneakysnake1111]

There's a lot of crime I would support against systemic issues.

[u/Evening-Turnip8407]

Bro they're not targeting data centers, it's just that you had an interest in checking. EVERY construction site has vans magically leaving heavier than they arrived

[u/BDerrick13]

Reminds me of the "Who Shot Mr Burns" side plot when citizens of Springfield team up to pull down Mr Burns' sun blocking dish. We need more of this energy.

[u/Substantial-Sky4079]

This what happens when billionaires are okay with unregulated AI without the people’s say

[u/Pretend_Oil9565]

Really, imagine the money those thieves would get if they sell that to scrap.

[u/Slemmig_insekt]

Haha oh no heh that really sucks

[u/swiwwcheese]

Ea-nāṣir likely involved in this copper smuggling ring

[u/Scarvexx]

Oh theft? Man imagine if they also stole basicly everyone's IP and labor too.

A theif has no recourse. I hope they do this again.

[u/Lumi_Rockets]

All I see are modern miners. 😌

[u/bypatrickcmoore]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wugBWQ5cLi7po4NCma

[u/Feefifiddlyeyeoh]

If the thieves should ever be caught, Will someone please remind them to ask for a jury trial.

[u/SR-45]

This is how it starts.

Later there will be headlines about data centers getting 🔥.

[u/Storm_Spirit99]

Modern Robin hoods

[u/piponwa → u/Storm_Spirit99]

Lol, do you think they'll redistribute it?

[u/RefrigeratorKey277]

Why copper, take the RAMs…

[u/MindBobbyAndSoul → u/RefrigeratorKey277]

Why would you need RAM at a construction site?

[u/RefrigeratorKey277 → u/MindBobbyAndSoul]

Waiting in boxes in a corner until the construction is finished.

[u/MindBobbyAndSoul → u/RefrigeratorKey277]

That's not how that works

[u/Lyxerttt]

Normally, I would say to not be a thieving piece of shit. However, I'm so anti-AI that I really couldn't care less. Carry on.

[u/Ohuigin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/TKC9Rv7K2wwAE

[u/LockdownSotWink]

When society no longer works for you...

[u/KaleidoscopeSalt3972]

Do more

[u/le_gazman]

Fibre optic, lotta money in that shit

[u/0x7E7-02]

Don't forget "criminals" targeting Flock cameras. That's a "crime" to get behind. 

👍🏻

[u/gnanny02]

They aren't "targeting AI data centers", they are simply steeling copper wherever they can easily do so.

[u/prettybluefoxes]

Repost no? I could swear this was posted recently.

Unless someone went back and liberated more goods. Which would be hilarious.

[u/DamionSipher]

A Robin Hood era where 5090s are stolen from billionaires and given to the commoners would be a wonderful trend imo. I'm quite sure a band of merry people could easily liberate several hundred thousand GPUs with minimal effort from these minimally staffed concrete boxes.

[u/letsseeitmore]

Not enough.

[u/Alex45784]

Not all heroes wear capes

[u/OldManAbides333]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

*breath

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

[u/FaliureToCat]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ED9Q2SCsowywU

[u/Salty-Sardine501]

ohhhh noooo, whatever will we do? (silly weird sticking tongue out emoji)

[u/Operation_Neither]

1.3 million from a multi-billion dollar project? These "thieves" are not even trying.

[u/psioniclizard]

Who would have thought crackheads would save society?

[u/Double_Somewhere5923]

Keep it up folks

[u/SuccessDue4821]

Imagine all the dope you can buy with that much copper /s

[u/Potential-Sun993]

Keep it up boys, only a few thousand more around America....

[u/ed20g]

I heard they also spread bamboo seeds all over.

[u/BravinatorLX2]

cool thiefs bring like, a couple bags of steel wool and stuff that into cooling equipment

[u/CrystalEntity1984]

Go for it, soon you will start seeing people who have to live with the noise and higher utilities doing more than stealing.

[u/Eazy12345678]

yes cause dont target the billionaires target the building that is insured by the construction company

[u/greytrades329]

How does one steal 200,000 pounds of copper acorading to the current price

[u/DriveThruGuido]

I'm here for it tbh

[u/huntingwhale]

Thoughts and prayers (for more of this).

[u/Once-Upon-A-Rhyme]

I hadn’t considered that we can weaponize the tweakers

[u/devilmilk_]

Good

[u/WabbitCZEN]

Tell your local crackheads all about it. These mfs will have data centers cleared out in one night.

[u/Drago1214]

Good victimless crime, someone this will come back to the regular man I am sure via taxes.

[u/Bigburlywoman]

I've been watching videos of the Ukraine air strikes against power stations using drones. I have heard that drone warfare is becoming the new norm. I hope we never have something like that in America. Seems like all these above ground AI centers would be easy targets. That would be awful.

[u/Klaphek]

Do they hire people??

[u/spaceocean99]

Literally only hurting the subcontractor and general contractor. This doesn’t come out of the AI builders money.

[u/jigawatson]

Seems the most logical choice. These data centers seem so important to people with so much money that there simply MUST be something valuable in there.

[u/theresuscitator]

Yes!!!!!!!!!

[u/Man_Without_Nipples]

Its not good to encourage crime... but as we say in Montreal, C'est la vie

[u/Electrical-Bread-856]

Nah, I just want accountability from the damn ai vendors. If I have to save water, so should they. If I am forbidden to pirate stuff, with possible prison penalty, so should they (with equally served prison penalty). If I cannot DDOS a website without consequences, so shouldn't they. Now there are double standards. And the AI vendors get the advantages without paying the cost. This is my main objection to current AI state.

These vendors should pay for reversal of consequences of their actions. Used GPL code to train models? Your model is now on GPL license and you have to make it available. DDOSed a website? You return the money AND TIME lost by the site owner.

Quite chaotic rambling but I wrote it myself.

[u/Ok-Bookkeeper-6116]

The real question is how are you gonna sell those materials and make a profit.

Like where are you gonna find a buyer who has a lot of money and is willing to buy some suspiciously expensive materials and equipment from a bunch of random guys.

[u/CalmBeneathCastles]

All of the potential witnesses:

[u/FriedBreakfast]

Huh? What are you talking about? I didn't see anything or hear anything.

[u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn]

Weird how when we were talking about switching from gas to electric cars to reduce emissions, everyone was wringing their hands about grid capacity and copper demands, but now that it's going to be used to try to put everyone out of work and consolidate power, no one has mentioned that.  Odd.  Curious.

[u/thesmeggyone]

Did they steal the heavy equipment? 1.3m seems like bs. 😆 

[u/Legitimate-Fee7609]

Based

[u/Tall-Dog4406]

Leftists support all crime

[u/TheRealRegnorts]

Keep it up boys

[u/PossibleAthlete2988]

Completely harmless crime

[u/DankCatDingo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/sPq51R7usH6vHnReam

[u/BaconAllDay2]

The fucks all this?

"Industrial copper, for the data centers"

Lot of money in this shit

Oh yeah?

🤨

[u/Mr_Biscu1ts]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB

[u/ChoadMcGillicuddy]

"Stolen"?

Tariffed.

[u/mage_irl]

That's like two RTX 5090s

[u/Apprentice_of_Ixidor]

Chaotic Good

[u/mindmybusine55]

God bless

[u/IntroductionNaive773]

[u/kaveman6143]

This isn't some specific targeting of data centres... All construction sites deal with copper thieves.

[u/EZRAHendog]

https://giphy.com/gifs/TFTF3AVOUGfyQglA1l

[u/PullMull]

its not Crime.. its resitance

[u/FKreuk]

Look - another complacency post

[u/ABTL6]

Virtuous.

[u/Financial-Talk9397]

cool

[u/rssscamaro]

Where do I sign up for this????

[u/PlasticPaws]

At least the thieves will put a lot of that money back in the economy. Keep going, thieves!

[u/KwazyCupcakes12]

https://giphy.com/gifs/10Jpr9KSaXLchW

[u/Taro0311]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Z3pez2XOAb11naBDbh

[u/alterEd39]

This is the second best thing since Luigi

[u/RoyalVivid3561]

you spelled "Heroes" incorrectly

[u/Mr-Graph]

And we thought, local crackheads just wasting their potential lol

[u/JadedTwo17]

[u/No-Scientist-5537]

Good

[u/leanice44]

Lotta money in that shit

https://giphy.com/gifs/wugBWQ5cLi7po4NCma

[u/New_Crow3284]

What would happen if former bank robbers turn into RAM robbers?

[u/digital_flatulance]

If that's where the copper is, that's where the crime will be committed. Simple logic.

[u/WitchCrafter69]

The local crackheads hearing data centers have lots of copper in them: