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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They tried to build this abomination in London and it got shot down.

[โ€“] visnae@lemmy.world 2 points 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.