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filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 个月前

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

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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

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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
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The Las Vegas Sphere might have an impressive spec sheet, but its energy demands are almost as staggering.
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    The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

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      Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though…?

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        Yes?

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      How about using it for the free school lunches that the Governor decided to veto for some fucking reason?

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        We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.

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        It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches

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      Is that where guillotines come in?

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      Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

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      Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

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        Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)

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      So we might a well build some shit.

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        Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

        Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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