Free market at work. Nothing to see here.
GTA 6 mission leak
Plot twist: the thieves were from Nvidia, who is going to give a credit toward the stolen hardware to Open AI and Anthrophic, who’s then going to lease the stolen hardware from…
Fast XI?
$1.3 million
“Just installed 37,000 TB of DDR5 to my rig.”
It was only 1.3mil in memory l… So by delivery truck did you mean 1 small FedEx blister pack?
Fuck yeah, keep it up. If we cant have the hardware neither can they.
So… the PayDay devs have … basically admitted PayDay 3 was a mistake… and are going back to PayDay 2…
I may have an idea for some new heist content.
Get those RAMs
I might have to rewatch The Fast and the Furious. Now it’s just AI hardware instead of VCRs or whatever it was in the movie.
Portable DVD players, yeah. This was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Actually I kind of hope they did
What a weird crime.
This is like stealing hospital equipment, sure it’s high value, but who are you going to sell it to that isn’t going to ask questions?
I can see corporate espionage making sense, one AI company stealing chips from another AI company but it doesn’t seem like these guys had a buyer.
There’s a black market for export to China but they’d need to already have contacts or involvement for that to work.
Although ot would be way funnier to see unobtainium enterprise gear end up on ebay lol.
Stuff stolen in Alabama and Florida later found in Chicago… that’s organized crime, so seems probable they’d have the contacts needed to fence the goods internationally.
But they probably could sell RAM and SSDs at a discount on eBay right now.
eyes homelab suspiciously
Yeah but even then, these are high-end server chips that require rack power supplies and industrial cooling. At most you’d want like two of them and even then you’d have to have a pretty beefy electrical connection, any more than that and the cops are going to be raiding your place thinking you’re growing weed.
Maybe they are stealing them to delay/sabotage a data center. And increase freight insurance rates.
I never have thought that I would be for a heist until now.
$1.3 million
So like a pallet of ram and a pallet of gpus. Got it.
You love to see it.
Unfortunately, with the state of this country I could also see aggressive militarized private security getting more popular around this shit.
Given that only another AI company could possibly be interested in AI chips perhaps we could spark some sort of war between two rival groups. Could be fun.
Oh boy, just what we need, corpo-wars to go along with the nation-wars.
It would be nice to see them hurting each other instead of the general populace, but we all know that they do collateral damage to innocents even when weapons aren’t involved.
The Arasaka and Militech corpo future is closer than 2077 it seems
Look into the history of the Chiquita banana company. We already been there a while now.
Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk series actually started in 1988 with the first version of the TRRPG set in 2013. Arasaka was around then. Armatech-Luccessi International, which became Militech after rebranding, was a corpo in 2013, just in a different capacity at the time.
In 1990’s Cyberpunk 2020, set in 2020, both corpos had been fully established as very powerful, separate entities.
So, Mike’s seen this coming for a while. There are so many parallels from our current timeline and the fictional one in the game, it’s scary…
Honestly, there is a big turn in sci Fi when we moved towards neoliberalism.
It’s almost like in the 70s and 80s a lot of it became dystopian or fantasy.
Avarice as a prime motive does not make happy stories.
The neat part about America is anyone can own militarized private security gear and weapons
