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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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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 144 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Currently, an agreement is under review to ensure that 70% of the Sphere's power needs will come from solar sources, with the other 30% from non-renewable energy that will be offset by renewable energy credits.

Nevada has pledged to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, and the solar project under construction to help offset its energy debt is estimated to complete in 2027.

How stupid is it that somebody can claim “Net Zero” greenhouse gas emissions when 30% of their power is greenhouse gas.

Just gonna throw this out there. Fuck credits, charge a carbon tax.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

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

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