AI is not just code in the cloud. It is heavy, physical, and currently sitting in stolen trailers in Illinois.
Authorities just recovered $1.3 million worth of data center supplies at a truck yard near Chicago. Organized cargo thieves are treating the AI infrastructure boom like a modern gold rush. They hit a shipment in Alabama for $300,000 in copper wire. They hit another in Florida for $1 million in server equipment.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates cargo theft costs businesses up to $35 billion a year. Now, the most lucrative targets on the interstate are the raw materials needed to keep AI running.
