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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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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Have you ever seen a solar array that gives 28 MW?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or how about six wind turbines? It’s rather windy in Las Vegas.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, have you seen it with your own eyes?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I’ve flown over a couple big ones. Not sure of the exactly area or output.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it bigger or smaller than a football field?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rough calculation says it needs about 28 ha, this could be about 30 football fields (depending on whatever they mean in your area when they say football :))

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you for doing the math.