You’d bet it takes a lot of technical magic to power the city that never sleeps. Here are 15 tech-facts to feed your inner geek.

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Insight 2014
15 Interesting
Tech Facts About
Las Vegas

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You’d bet it takes a lot of technical magic to power the
city that never sleeps.
Here are 15 tech-facts to feed your inner geek.
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The world’s largest
operating data campus is
situated in southern
Nevada to avoid natural
disaster.
Switch is a 2.2M sq. ft.,
multi-campus data
storage facility housing
thousands of servers
belonging to companies
such as Google, eBay
and Zappos.
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Want to surf on the
fastest Wi-Fi around?
ARIA Wi-Fi Internet
offers a guaranteed 3
Megabit connection,
the most in the
industry.
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In 1989, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas (UNLV) was awarded
one of only 34 supercomputers
in the world as part of a federal
funding bill for the Department of
Energy to study the suitability of
building a nuclear waste
repository at Yucca Mountain.
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Did you know? There are 15,000
miles of neon tubing on the strip
and downtown.
That’s a lot of lights.
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Vegas Vic, the enormous neon
cowboy that towers over Fremont
Street, is the world’s largest
mechanical neon sign.
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The fountains of
Bellagio feature 1200
nozzles, 4500 lights,
and 8000 meters of
pipe, sitting in an 8-
acre artificial lake filled
with over 22M gallons
of water.
Small robots called
oarsmen control the
direction of the
nozzles, and a
computer system like
a performance
choreographer.
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Las Vegas doesn’t
actually get much of its
power from Hoover Dam,
since the electric company
serving Las Vegas is NV
Energy, which owns its
own power plants.

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Where does the energy
come from?
70% of NV Energy’s power
generation for southern
Nevada comes from natural
gas fired plants.
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The electric bill cost to
operate the Luxor pyramid
beam is approximately
$60 per hour.
Estimated at $600 a night!
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An average Las Vegas casino’s electric
bill is around $85,000 per month.
That’s about $750,000 to $1M a year.
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Solidifying
CityCenter’s
commitment to
sustainability, ARIA is
the largest building in
the world with LEED
Gold status.
(Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design
granted by
the U.S. Green
Building Council)
Impressive.
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The Las Vegas monorail is
completely electric and
produces zero emissions. A total
of nine trains run on a single rail
that sits 30 feet above ground in
most areas, with its highest point
reaching 60 feet above the Las
Vegas Convention Center.
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The highroller at the
Linq boasts 7.2M
pounds of steel and
112 cables.
Each cable measures
approximately 225 feet,
for a combined total of
25,256 feet.
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Vegas is home to
over 22,000
conventions per
year and is a proud
host of the world’s
largest consumer
technology
tradeshow, CES.
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It’s no accident that
casinos are absent of
clocks.
Not knowing the time
increases the sense
of freedom and
therefore helps
increase dollars spent
gambling.
Time flies when
you’re having fun.
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October 27-30, 2014
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