They probably wanted to steal GPUs. Instead they got 40,000 pounds of sand.
A pair of Nvidia-branded trailers stolen from autonomous trucking company PlusAI weren’t packed with the pricey Nvidia chips the thieves must have been expecting. Business Insider reports the trucks were found hours later with their cargo seemingly intact: sand used to simulate cargo for test drives. That’s one way to thwart scalpers. [Link: Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded trailer filled with nothing but 20,000 pounds of sand | https://www.businessinsider.com/thieves-steal-nvidia-branded-trailer-find-sand-instead-2026-9 | Business Insider]
A pair of Nvidia-branded trailers stolen from autonomous trucking company PlusAI weren’t packed with the pricey Nvidia chips the thieves must have been expecting. Business Insider reports the trucks were found hours later with their cargo seemingly intact: sand used to simulate cargo for test drives. That’s one way to thwart scalpers.
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