filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoLas 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 Gamerwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square429fedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down147
arrow-up1953arrow-down1external-linkLas 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 Gamerwww.pcgamer.comfilister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square429fedilink
minus-squareVanix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·edit-24 months agoThis 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
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoThe 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.
minus-squarerealharo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoMore likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·4 months ago complete shot in the dark Man, I wanna delay the stupid edgy joke I’m making but I can’t help myself
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
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.
More likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.
Man, I wanna delay the stupid edgy joke I’m making but I can’t help myself