Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    25 days ago
    • 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.
      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        24 days ago

        You can pretend that the piss you’re drinking is water but you can’t pretend that AI and Datacenters aren’t subsidizing the meth renaissance.