Comment on 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

• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So?

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  110MW …wikipedia.org/…/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Proj…

  392MW …m.wikipedia.org/…/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

  These are both near Vegas.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it bigger or smaller than a football field?

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 :))

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for doing the math.

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