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The Data Center Heist

The New York Times Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026

[fetch failed] A New York Times Magazine long-form feature on a heist targeting a data center.

This New York Times Magazine feature appears to recount a heist involving a data center, a category of crime that has grown in prominence as data centers concentrate enormous value in GPUs, servers, and the data they hold.

Physical security of data center facilities has become a rising concern alongside cyber risk, given the AI-driven hardware boom and the resale value of high-end computing equipment.

The piece is presented as narrative magazine journalism rather than a technical security analysis. Content could not be retrieved directly, so this summary is inferred from the URL and publication context.

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