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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 | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They tried to build this abomination in London and it got shot down.

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[-] SunDevil@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

"Capable of drawing 28,000,000 watts of power" doesn't tell us anything. As was noted, it should've been given in megawatts (28 mW) or kilowatts (28,000 kW). Clickbait aside, how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) does it actually use?

28 mW isn't that much energy, relatively speaking. As of 2015, Forbes estimated LV uses 8000 mW on an average summer day.

The potential is impressive. I doubt it pulls anywhere near that. Unless I did my math wrong, this seems sensationalist.

[-] Zeoic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Just Fyi, mW is milliwatts, and MW is megawatts. Agreed though, I doubt it draws that much day to day.

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[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 4 months ago

So how is the total power over 500x that of the GPU power? If it's all LEDs, that thing must get brighter than the damn sun.

[-] Jackfinished@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Funny enough you can barely see it during the day

[-] gianni@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

We need more nuclear power ASAP

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's no such thing as "ASAP" for nuclear power. If you had the permits signed off today, it would take 10 years before a single GWh of new nuclear energy goes to the grid.

Instead, maybe we shouldn't build giant spherical advertising displays?

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

There's no such thing as "ASAP" for nuclear power

Sure there is. It's just that the P stands for "20 years from now."

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[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Look upon my works ye mighty and despair.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Normally I'd be suspicious of these kinds of megastructure projects but Vegas is the city that figured out how to get damn close to net zero water use from the Colorado so I'm willing to start off with the benefit of the doubt for the city leaders that ok'd this.

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