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Don't tell them there's copper and other precious metals they can steal in AI datacenters. Also, most definitely DO NOT tell them most AI datacenters are completely unstaffed and easily accessible.
Copper by weight is cheap as hell. RAM & NVME drives are a WAY better ROI. It wouldn’t even be worth carrying the whole server.
How many times do we have to explain that datacenters don't run on hardware that is compatible with consumer shit?
I’ll take all your spare 256 or 512 gig ECC sticks. Heck. I’ll even pay for shipping.
From what I've read, even the RAM for AI datacenters is not compatible like this, not even for server stuff.