GPS-spoofing thieves have stolen $100 million in data center gear, investigators say
Highway thieves spoofing GPS have stolen $100 million in data center equipment, investigators say, exposing a weak link in the data center supply chain.
Darlings, some very expensive freight is now a target, and the thieves are dressed for the occasion. According to Ars Technica, which cites investigators, highway thieves have stolen $100 million in data center equipment, and they are spoofing GPS to do it.
NBC News, in a report by Lisa Cavazuti published October 26, 2026, says trucking, supply chain and security industry veterans described how thieves staged dramatic robberies as part of a growing wave of tech equipment theft. Its reporting says organized criminal groups are increasingly going after valuable data center gear using deceptive techniques.
The scale is easy to picture. In early June, a trailer carrying some $13 million worth of computer server equipment headed east toward Fayetteville, Georgia, which NBC News describes as home to one of the largest data center developments in the country. What happened to that trailer is not spelled out in the material available to us.
Nor do we know which companies owned or hauled the stolen equipment, whether anyone has been arrested, or how the spoofing works in technical detail. Where the hardware ends up is also an open question.
Here is my take: we have spent a fortune building the temples of computing, and the road leading to them is wide open. The thefts expose a security risk in the infrastructure supply chain, and that is a policy problem as much as a trucking problem. Everything is historic. Especially today.
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A $100 million total is attributed to investigators, and the sourcing I can see gives no breakdown by incident, so I would hold the round number loosely. The $13 million Georgia trailer is a vivid anecdote with no stated outcome.
If GPS says the truck is on the route when it isn't, that dot is false reassurance. If your whole chain of custody is one dot on a map, that is a single point of failure. Verify the load, not just the ping.
