And don’t ever suggest that those free employees are definitely expendable.

I’m going to start mining in datacenters.

So like bitcoin?

Nah, this is different thing.

RIP to a real one who died a suspicious death

Some datacenters are staffed by people wearing armor and armed with guns.

Or that it’s full of RAM and GPUs, which have skyrocketed in price.

Eh, very little though. The components themselves are orders of magnitude more valuable but you have to know how to steal them to make money when even slight damage in a few specific places can make it nonfunctional.

Barely staffed, yeah.

But locked up pretty friggin tight.

The racks themselves may be locked…sometimes proxcard, sometimes dynamo combination.

They are inside of a locked cage. Usually a combination of two or more…prox, biometric, pin.

That itself may even be inside of a locked room with the same access controls.

To get there, you will need to get past the security guard at the lobby. Depending on who the customers are and what state your in, those guards may be armed.

There most certainly will be a man-trap which will involve speaking to the guards and prove yourself as being a customer. Vendors must be escorted unless the customer got them registered as if they are employed by the customer.

Outside the building, could be guardshacks, likely with motorized gates. Sometimes also barbed wire.

They are also sometimes practically invisible unless you know they are there. There was one I used to work in in NOLA that looked like an abandoned strip mall. There was one in central MA like that as well. A friend of mine owns a data center in Providence that looks like any other abandoned mill building.

Macy’s Boston/Downtown Crossing?? Damn near all the Internet in New England flows through the floors above.