The whole uses lots of energy therefore bad argument is complete bullshit. Energy usage is directly proportional to technological development and technology is effectively human evolution.
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
Submitted 4 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 months ago
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good luck, you are talking to people who think that if the billionaires passed out all their money to everyone, then we would all be able to afford way more stuff. They have no idea that more cash doesn’t mean way more products appear. Supply and demand is such a simple concept, but to them, it might as well be rocket science.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Imagine being so naive as to believe massive wealth hording deprived others! What turkeys! Amirite?
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 4 months ago
God you guys cant have any fun. Yeah it uses power but cant we have cool things once and awhile?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The non-stop anti-humanity propaganda is exhausting.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Normally I’d be suspicious of these kinds of megastructure projects but Vegas is the city that figured out how to get damn close to net zero water use from the Colorado so I’m willing to start off with the benefit of the doubt for the city leaders that ok’d this.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Look upon my works ye mighty and despair.
fender_symphonic584@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You all go ooo and aaaa then yell at oil companies for climate change.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The power usage wouldn’t be a problem if the electricity were generated in a green way.
If only the energy sector had a workforce experienced in building offshore structures that could build offshore wind farms. And maybe a workforce that had experience in drilling that could develop geothermal energy.
Of course we also need an energy sector that had a lot of financial resources to put into these kinds of investments.
If only the energy sector had these kinds of resources, a big sphere drawing a lot of electricity wouldn’t be a problem.
fender_symphonic584@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As an industry insider, can tell you old oil and gas wells are being converted to geothermal where possible. There is lots of innovation in the works!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
someone pay to put the Lemmy logo on it, i heard there was a way to pay for an image to show up
SuperFola@programming.dev 4 months ago
Shame
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 months ago
28 MW? What are they doing in there, aluminum?
z00s@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kinda feels like humanity is in the process of jumping the shark on this one
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s the last season anyway
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They tried to build this abomination in London and it got shot down.
visnae@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Before the Sphere, the largest spherical building in the world (since 1989) was the Globe in Stockholm.
On it they sometimes project stuff on, which seems to be a way cheaper and energy efficient way than adding a billion LEDs.
Fun fact about the arena Globen, it’s actually the biggest piece in a art installation about our solar system, representing the sun. Pluto is about halfway up in Sweden.
It’s also the home arena of Swedens national ice hockey team.