• @[email protected]
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      621 month ago

      It’s giant, it’s stupid, and i love it. This is what tech should be used for: Art, not math to maximize stock trades per picosecond.

      • Eager Eagle
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        481 month ago

        It’s for ads. A wasteful beacon of light pollution for ads.

      • mle
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        171 month ago

        I get the sentiment, but at the same time it feels like a mad waste of resources and energy in a time of climate crisis. These materials and electric power could have gone into sustainable transportation or carbon capture instead of fuelling some corporations monetary gain.

        • @Demdaru
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          1 month ago

          Or, ya kno, to another AI center.

          Most prolly another AI center.

          I prefer the goofy ball.

      • @captainlezbian
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        51 month ago

        Full agree. It’s flashy and stupid and impressive and it represents a lot of terrible financial decisions. What could better represent Las Vegas? It should be on Nevada license plates.

    • @stupidcasey
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      241 month ago

      It’s great from 2000 miles away only ever seeing it on the internet, it would probably be amazing in real life for a week maybe two… three…a month… a year… a decade…….

    • JackbyDev
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      121 month ago

      I’ve heard that the vast majority of the time it’s just advertisements, though.

      • @Dupree878
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        61 month ago

        We had a big digital display put in my town and they did that shit and in less than a week it was made illegal because they drafted an ordinance that specifically only affected that building and sign. They could stop it if they weren’t owned by corpos

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      61 month ago

      Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.