{"slug": "cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies", "title": "Cargo Thieves Recover $1.3M in Data Center Supplies", "summary": "Cook County Sheriff's Office investigators recovered two stolen trailers containing about $300,000 in copper wire spools and approximately $1 million in data center infrastructure equipment at a truck yard outside Chicago. The copper-carrying trailer was reported stolen from Pine Hill, Alabama, and the equipment-filled trailer from Jacksonville, Florida. Cargo theft can account for up to $35 billion in annual losses, according to Department of Homeland Security estimates.", "body_md": "Industry context: For AI and data-center teams, theft of physical infrastructure raises delivery, timeline, and cost risk for deployments and construction projects. Investigators with the **Cook County Sheriff's Office** recovered two stolen trailers containing about **$300,000** in copper wire spools and approximately **$1 million** in data center infrastructure equipment at a truck yard outside Chicago, according to reporting by FreightWaves and Business Insider. The trailer with the copper was reported stolen from **Pine Hill, Alabama**, and the equipment-filled trailer was reported stolen from **Jacksonville, Florida**, per those sources and the sheriff's office. FreightWaves reports the copper-carrying trailer displayed Indiana plates that had been reported stolen in Wisconsin, and Business Insider cites Department of Homeland Security estimates that cargo theft can account for up to **$35 billion** in annual losses.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/cargo-thieves-recover-13m-in-data-center-supplies-89a054e0", "published_at": "2026-06-30 11:06:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 11:56:07.768865+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Cook County Sheriff's Office", "FreightWaves", "Business Insider", "Pine Hill, Alabama", "Jacksonville, Florida", "Department of Homeland Security"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cargo-thieves-recover-1-3m-in-data-center-supplies.jsonld"}}