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 - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    This is a complete shot in the dark but could the huge power draw come from needing some intense industrial cooling/airflow stuff in/on the sphere?

    Edit: forgot a word

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The big power draw is because of the sheer amount of light it dumps out. You try lighting up 54,000 square meters of LED panel to a few hundred nits like a pc monitor, and see how much power it takes.

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      5 months ago

      More likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.

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      complete shot in the dark

      Man, I wanna delay the stupid edgy joke I’m making but I can’t help myself