One thought keeping me up at night is, if I were to destroy/damage a datacenter, and was found guilty, is there a way to not pay for the damages? Could I just get a life sentance instead of paying
For some of them, I think each rack costs like in the millions. A giant AI datacenter will have tonnes and tonnes of them. Do you think you could ever pay back even the tiniest fraction of 1 billion $?
No, that’s what bankruptcy is for. But of course, they won’t make you pay damages, you’re too poor and they’re not stupid. One damage goes above $X it becomes a felony charge and they’ll make an example out of you so that no one else is brave enough to copy you
I fully expect to see an execution happen in my lifetime for someone destroying a data center.
It’d be preferable for their hardware to be redistributed to people who could use it for open source things, but I’ll accept burning down or killdozering.
Incidentally if you steal a bunch of super thick copper wiring from a data center construction site, strip it all down, and melt the copper into ingots, nobody asks questions about where you got the copper at the scrap place you sell it to. So make sure you don’t do things like that.
One thought keeping me up at night is, if I were to destroy/damage a datacenter, and was found guilty, is there a way to not pay for the damages? Could I just get a life sentance instead of paying
Do people usually have to pay for things when they destroy them? I don’t think I’ve heard of that generally
Just don’t get caught though. Flee the country, lay low.
The key is, get a horde to do it. Gonna jail an entire city? Nope.
For some of them, I think each rack costs like in the millions. A giant AI datacenter will have tonnes and tonnes of them. Do you think you could ever pay back even the tiniest fraction of 1 billion $?
Yea but they’d still put me in eternal debt, right?
No, that’s what bankruptcy is for. But of course, they won’t make you pay damages, you’re too poor and they’re not stupid. One damage goes above $X it becomes a felony charge and they’ll make an example out of you so that no one else is brave enough to copy you
Ask grok!
I fully expect to see an execution happen in my lifetime for someone destroying a data center.
It’d be preferable for their hardware to be redistributed to people who could use it for open source things, but I’ll accept burning down or killdozering.
Incidentally if you steal a bunch of super thick copper wiring from a data center construction site, strip it all down, and melt the copper into ingots, nobody asks questions about where you got the copper at the scrap place you sell it to. So make sure you don’t do things like that.