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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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[–] Vanix@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This is a complete shot in the dark but could the huge power draw come from needing some intense industrial cooling/airflow stuff in/on the sphere?

Edit: forgot a word

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The big power draw is because of the sheer amount of light it dumps out. You try lighting up 54,000 square meters of LED panel to a few hundred nits like a pc monitor, and see how much power it takes.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

More likely it's the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

complete shot in the dark

Man, I wanna delay the stupid edgy joke I’m making but I can’t help myself