frezik comments on 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

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 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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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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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[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's probably at night

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Regardless, that energy could be going to offset other energy currently being produced by non-renewables no matter which way you slice it.

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[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years 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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