A bomb that could destroy Earth's core would be an admittedly impressive technical feat!
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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I mean it is cool. But really a testament to why we deserve extinction at this point...
That article gets stuck so much and makes my (relatively high end) laptop's fan scream so hard you'd think the website was designed for that kind of hardware.
Wouldn't just one GPU be enough to run the Sphere, or a I getting something wrong?
I remember hearing about that it's not exactly high resolution, each "pixel" being a bunch of pretty large lamps.
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Ok, so it's "capable of drawing" enough power for 20,000 homes in the area. How much does it actually use day to day? Does it dim at night and brighten in the daytime to keep those ads rolling in the sunshine?
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That pretty much describes all of Vegas.
I guess they dont need to pay for heating when you have a bunch of high power computers pumping out a crap ton of heat
It also helps that it's in Las Vegas.
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And unless it displays a picture of Mr. House it's all for naught
In 2030 this will just be the standard system requirements for AAA games because optimization is hard.
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At every stage of it’s life cycle; the Sphere has been the dumbest thing imaginable
And because some rich people got scammed into buying in now everyone has to advertise it
"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.
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