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Cook County investigators recovered two trailers at a Chicago-area yard containing about $1.3 million in data-center supplies—$300,000 in copper wire and $1 million in data-center infrastructure—highlighting a rising pattern of organized cargo theft targeting metals and data-center equipment amid a data-center construction boom.
Two stolen trailers containing more than $1.3 million in cargo were recovered at a suburban Chicago truck yard. One trailer held about $300,000 worth of copper wire; the other contained roughly $1 million in data-center infrastructure equipment. The shipments were reported stolen in Alabama and Florida, and investigators are seeking the driver and others involved with the thefts; no arrests have been announced and the case remains ongoing.