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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

The Las Vegas Sphere might have an impressive spec sheet, but its energy demands are almost as staggering.

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Anybody know where they keep their racks and what security is like?

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- If I had to wager a guess about the security, I'd be surprised if it isn't fairly lax.
  
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  I’d bet when you spend 2.2 billion dollars building something useless you’d be willing to shell out min wage for a few armed guards. Also there’s no way they’re not doing the facial recognition bullshit Madison Square Garden has been going for
  
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- This is just off the strip, right next to Caesar's Forum, which is where DefCon is usually held. The casinos are not oblivious about cybersecurity anymore, they've been exposed to some of the world's best hackers on an annual basis for almost 3 decades now. No security is perfect, but I seriously doubt it's lax.
  
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I saw ‘Postcard from Earth’ there. It was fine for a tech demo but nothing more than that really. Left feeling that it was worth experiencing once, but not so amazed I’d rush back to see something else. I guess that’s true enough for a lot of stuff in Vegas.

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Congratulations you don’t have any fucking healthcare.

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Based on the spec sheet about 1.6% would be powering the GPUs at full power, I'd be willing to double that for their cooling (though that's a fairly liberal estimate). Where is all the other power going, is it powering the screen itself?

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- Massive amounts of LEDs
  
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  even accounting on how efficient led bulbs are?
  
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What does it do? Other than waste energy?

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