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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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[–] 146 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And yet they still couldn't cover the last 30%.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's probably at night

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Well you don't understand what "net" means.

    It doesn't mean literally zero. It means colunm A and column B average out to zero.

    To acheive a real net zero, they have to save energy somewhere else that takes that column past 100% (Such as if their solar panels produce more energy than they use during certain times.)

    They probably just make some shit up to say their are saving extra somewhere they aren't (so to that point, yes...credits are bullshit.)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe, I mean just maybe, they can run this thing only as long as the solar generated power lasts, and then turn it off 30% of the time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Fuck credits, charge a carbon tax.

    IMO it seems RECs are a better solution than carbon taxes at least in situations like this. With RECs you're buying renewable energy to offset non-renewables, with a carbon tax the company is just giving the government money for use of non-renewables. Only funds spent on RECs in this case actually go to supporting the renewable energy sector. I'm no expert in this stuff so I could be off, just how I understand it.

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