The world’s tallest building has officially opened today in Dubai a Middle Eastern city in the United Arab Emirates. It has over 160 floors, is 828 meters tall, has 57 elevators, and can be seen 50 miles away. It’s so tall that it’s 10 degrees celsius cooler at the top than it is at the bottom. That is nuts! I have to visit this structure one day just to hang out in the pool on the 76th floor, and then venture to the nightclub on the 148th.

It also got me thinking about how much energy and resources this building will consume on a daily basis. I saw some mind numbing stats for the Burj Khalifa, for instance the use of air-conditioning in the building is estimated to be the equivalent of melting 12,500 tons of ice a day! Meanwhile, 250,000 gallons of desalinated water will be supplied every 24 hours. Crazy.

And if you’re like me you were curious to see how this building stacked up against the other skyscrappers of the world, so I did a little research and found this nice graphic comparison:

As a parting thought I’m wondering how long it will take before the French “Spider-Man” Alain Robert decides to climb this half mile tall structure? And when surely he does and I just hope he doesn’t fall due to heat a stroke.

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