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

• CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I highly doubt the operating hours of this ball of decadence match the time when solar power peaks

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• capital@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s probably at night

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only the creators of the ball had enough profit coming in to put up more solar panels and build up a battery bank for the night so they wouldn’t take anything from the grid…

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