• The data center bubble is driving the up cost of copper, copper futures and copper scrap to meme stock levels.
• Higher copper scrap prices are driving up the amount of copper theft to meme crime levels.
• Thus data centers have a direct causal relationship with copper theft.
• So no, it’s not an “anti-data center” circle jerk.

you could at least have linked instead to the business insider article this is ripping off.

The hypocrisy. Here’s that link https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-thieves-stole-million-of-data-center-supplies-sheriff-says-2026-6

(I’ll mention though that the Vice article is better because the BI article is paywalled.)