As tech billionaires make bank off an AI trade that now threatens retirement accounts and university endowments, a criminal element is rising to take advantage of the crumbs that fall off the table.
According to new reporting by NBC, truckfuls of equipment bound for data center construction sites are disappearing at a breakneck pace, representing tens of millions of dollars in losses for developers.
In one case, a trailer hauling server equipment bound for a hyperscale data center campus in Fayetteville, Georgia disappeared, after the unmarked police car escorting it was rammed by another driver. The trailer was found in a lot a few days later, with pallets containing $13 million worth of equipment nowhere to be found.
Another truckload bound for Texas went missing in a similar fashion, with a $10 million server rack vanishing after the escort vehicle was rammed and its GPS tracker manipulated by an unknown actor.
