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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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[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's probably at night

[–] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

So build concentrated solar power and store the heat for after the sun sets. Bonus - thermal power plant turbines give inertia to the grid, which photo-voltaics don't.