Data center gear is being hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, spoof GPS signals, and funnel hardware to China.

Admit it: you had fun with that

Wall Street calls that an asset light strategy. Nvidia calls it demand. The thieves call it same day delivery.

That’s a very AI-way of phrasing it.

The profit margins must be great.

Don’t forget datacenters being bombed as military targets.

Thats what happens when you pushbhardware to be more expensive than gold

I Think this too! Redo fast and furious with GPU!

Damn, beat me to it. The Fast & The Furious truck hijacking is one of my “what part of a movie hasn’t aged well” go-to responses. They were stealing shipments full of millions of dollars of ultra high-end, top-of-the-line, super high-tech… DVD players? The same DVD players that are like $5 for an entire pallet on eBay now?

Still kinda A/V gear.

Knocking the AV out of the sky via emp cost about 120 million eddies.

Made this fridge magnet years ago and it’s suitable to our current times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLwyq4Lrupw

Thieves steal millions dollars worth of shipments by hacking a highway billboard and prompt injecting all the trucks

I mean, it says the thieves are sending the hardware to China. That can mean anything from gaming black market to state-sponsored funneling of hardware to Chinese AI companies. It might be less Robin Hood and more… I don’t know, some Jackie Chan movie where Triads are operating in the US and working with a Chinese diplomat to help some mega-corp.

I’m sorry, but this is not going to folks trying to live their lives. They couldn’t even use the specialized hardware.

I want that to be true, but from the article:

The first instinct is to assume that all of the gear would end up on the second-hand market. But in an additional twist to the story, the thieves already have overseas buyers ready before the heist actually takes place.

Law enforcement officials believe that the gear is slurped up by entities operating in countries under the U.S.’ tight AI export controls, including China. Verified Carrier, a platform for vetting carriers, says that this year, it’s seen suspicious activity linked with U.S. cargo theft in India, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Colombia, and Moldova. Scott Cornell of TAPA Americas estimates that six to seven out of 10 stolen cargo shipments (data center gear or otherwise) end up overseas.

See? The thieves are just thinking about money, not justice or social balance.

From DVD players to GPUs in a generation

In that movie they were stealing VCRs, weren’t they? Makes me feel a billion years old