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

    We’ll also ignore the fact that that solar could have been used to offset actual needs instead of this BS.

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      5 months ago

      If only Las Vegas were located somewhere that the sun shines almost all day every day. \s

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        5 months ago

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

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        5 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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            5 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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            5 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.