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Don't tell them there's copper and other precious metals they can steal in AI datacenters. Also, most definitely DO NOT tell them most AI datacenters are completely unstaffed and easily accessible.
Copper by weight is cheap as hell. RAM & NVME drives are a WAY better ROI. It wouldn’t even be worth carrying the whole server.
Copper is way easier to fence and way easier to steal. The RAM and NVME aren't getting installed until the building has functional security. The mile of copper wire to run power is locked in a trailer and might not even have a permanent fence around it yet.
How many times do we have to explain that datacenters don't run on hardware that is compatible with consumer shit?
I’ll take all your spare 256 or 512 gig ECC sticks. Heck. I’ll even pay for shipping.
From what I've read, even the RAM for AI datacenters is not compatible like this, not even for server stuff.
AI startups are all so desperate for memory and GPUs that I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them were willing to buy shit that, uh, fell off the back of a truck.
Bro, watch/read Catch Me if You Can. Frank Abagnale is one of my heroes, like Joseph Smith is, and for the sane reason Christ is our lord. The audacity of a man in reflective vest, hardhat, with ladder and/or clipboard to walk confidently into a building to waltz up to the seventeenth floor to steal state secrets? Well, I've only done that four times, so it's not like I'm an expert or anything.
You know that all those Frank Abagnale stories came from Frank Abagnale and we're all bullshit, right?
My dad tells a story about an indicent in the 1980's, I think, where a couple of gentlemen went to Governer's Island and stole an 8ft diameter bronze screw. (Ship propeller)
I don't think they had vests, but they most likely just drove up with a flatbed like they had every right to be there. Probably even asked for help loading it.
Yea, it's the confidence that those gentlemen were artists at.
Confidence arts
Con arts
That's why it's called that
They're all proven liars?