Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat
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The Las Vegas Sphere might have an impressive spec sheet, but its energy demands are almost as staggering.
  • capitalEnglish
    67•2 months ago

    We’ll also ignore the fact that that solar could have been used to offset actual needs instead of this BS.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•2 months ago

      If only Las Vegas were located somewhere that the sun shines almost all day every day. \s

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 months ago

        I highly doubt the operating hours of this ball of decadence match the time when solar power peaks

      • capitalEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        And yet they still couldn’t cover the last 30%.

          • capitalEnglish
            3•2 months ago

            Regardless, that energy could be going to offset other energy currently being produced by non-renewables no matter which way you slice it.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        If only the creators of the ball had enough profit coming in to put up more solar panels and build up a battery bank for the night so they wouldn’t take anything from the grid…