filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-square441fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down147
arrow-up1969arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square441fedilink
minus-squareVanix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-21 month 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-21 month 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-up10·1 month agoMore likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month 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