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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

110MW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project

392MW https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

These are both near Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it bigger or smaller than a football field?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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 :))

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you for doing the math.