Data Center Equipment Theft Rises to Hundreds of Millions
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In the past two years, criminal groups have targeted shipments that contain data‑center hardware with a level of coordination that rivals organized crime in other sectors. The total loss is now estimated in the high hundreds of millions of dollars, according to industry analysts.
Lost or stolen equipment not only represents the purchase price of servers, storage arrays, and networking gear, but also the indirect cost of downtime, data migration, and the need for replacement parts. A single high‑end GPU can sell for several thousand dollars on the black market, and a full rack of servers can exceed a hundred thousand dollars.
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