Thieves Are Now Stealing the AI Boom - $1.3 Million in Data Center Gear

Thieves Are Now Stealing the AI Boom Thieves have found a new target. Not phones. Not cash. The gear that powers artificial intelligence. Around the world, companies are racing to build giant data centers for AI. And they need mountains of equipment. Cargo thieves used to go after graphics cards and game consoles. Now they're going after data center supplies. Near Chicago, police found two stolen trailers at a truck yard, packed with about one point three million dollars of data center equipment. One was full of copper wire. The thieves had even swapped its license plates. But they missed one thing. A hidden GPS tracker, quietly sending out its location. The second trailer held about a million dollars of equipment, stolen all the way from Jacksonville, Florida. Here's the twist. Servers carry serial numbers and are very specialized, so they're hard to sell without getting caught. So far, it's unclear if anyone has been arrested. And the AI boom keeps shipping billions in gear across the highways. Because now, thieves have found a new target. The gear that powers artificial intelligence.