A truck carrying $11.4 million in Nvidia hardware disappeared after leaving Oakland, as organized cargo thieves increasingly target expensive computer equipment destined for the data centers powering the AI boom.
A truck bearing the logo of a food transport company loaded up a shipment of Nvidia chips and computer hardware valued at $11.4 million in Oakland on August 29 and headed south toward Fort Worth, Texas, as the outlet BigGo Finance reports. Eventually the truck’s driver stopped communicating with dispatch.
Investigators were able to trace the truck’s route as far as San Bernardino County before losing track of it. Police say the truck made several stops along the way, each lasting multiple hours, suggesting that the people involved were familiar with freight operations…