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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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LOL. In fact, LMAO.
It's not stealing, they are just training their copper prediction model
They're increasing GDP! Raising the price of copper by increasing demand
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Oh no, the corporations which stole immeasurable quantities of our data to train their for-profit AI models are having their building materials stolen. My heart bleeds.
I wish them all the copper they can get from them!
Imagine starting to work from the inside and weld things wrong, install wiring just, "good enough," knowing full well one of the plugs will start a fire, shit inside the cement and make shit laced walls.
Construction workers can still get paid and inspection workers can be in on it too. It happens over and over again and eventually it becomes something that's not cost feasible to keep trying to rebuild knowing there will be a failure.
When pouring concrete it is vitally important that you do not accidentally spill a soda in the wet concrete. The sugar in the soda would ruin the concrete pour.
also remember to not accidentally put sugar (roughly 1kg sugar [or 2 pounds] per 1000kg cement) into a coment mixer because it will completely destroy the whole batch :(
A mixer truck typically holds around 6-8 yards of concrete, a yard is ~3900 pounds, which shakes out to 23,400-31,200 pounds, so definitely dont toss a 10 pound bag of sugar in the mixer truck.
In practice you don't need that much. Its enough that some of the concrete won't cure.
It's firmly mixed though. It's not like there's going to be a spot that fails to cure, it'll just overall cure slower than expected
Only solution is MORE SUGAR.
On the other hand, curing slower than expected creates its own problems with regard to compressive strength and reinforcement bonding, and that is before you take into account the production delays.
Gripping hand, any competent engineer is going to see the concrete hasn't cured correctly, and is going to demand it be removed and re-poured.
Now do: thieves are flooding the secondary market with HBM.
How bout me?
Unfathomably based.
Clickbait circlejerk slop. Every construction site is a target for thieves. This is just low effort clickbait made to pander to the anti-datacenter circlejerk, you could at least have linked instead to the business insider article this is ripping off.
- 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.
Ok and you put more thought into the framing of this story than the author of the vice post(I will not call that an article) did. If you think there isn't an anti-datacenter circlejerk and this wasn't bait for it I don't know what to tell you. High value cargo theft did not start because of datacenters, but you definitely only heard about this one because of the huge appetite for anti-datacenter news.
That's what I mean by circlejerk. Things that are not actually particularly exceptional are being treated like major news stories because people crave confirmation bias and schadenfreude. This vice post is one of the most transparent examples of the outrage economy that I've seen in a while.
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