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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 | PC Gamer

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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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    We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.

    • @[email protected]
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      32•10 months ago

      The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

      • dandi8
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        47•10 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          8•10 months ago

          Yes?

      • @[email protected]
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        34•10 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          6•10 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          1•10 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        10•10 months ago

        Is that where guillotines come in?

      • @[email protected]
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        6•10 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        2•10 months ago

        Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

        • @[email protected]
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          1•10 months ago

          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)

      • @[email protected]
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        2•10 months ago

        So we might a well build some shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          2•10 months ago

          Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

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

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      13•10 months ago

      This is the equivalent of saying “Eat all your dinner cause there’s starving children in Africa”.

      Sure, this sounds nice, but this logic falls apart the instant you start thinking about it.

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      9•10 months ago

      You sound like the people criticising NASA for spending money on science. “Who do X when Y is still an issue?”

      I doubt you make that kind of prioritization with your own money.

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        1•10 months ago

        NASA also consistently provides new innovation and new science.

        What will the dome keep contributing to society for the absurd electricity cost it takes to keep running? Advertisements?

        Yeah, there not really the same argument.

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