DNC Convention to leave massive carbon footprint

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So they're taking down ceilings, they're putting up walls. They're ripping this whole building apart. "It's details like this that mesmerize him: The Pepsi Center is outfitted with 576 miles of phone lines, computer lines and high-speed cable. But that's not enough. The DNCC's needs, due in part to security, create a system 'so massive it exceeds the Pepsi Center's.' So the DNCC contractors will overlay all those cables with their own. Qwest has donated several million dollars' worth of telecommunications equipment to outfit the convention hall and the media city that will go up outside it with approximately 3,000 data lines and 2,500 voice-grade circuits. Based on past conventions, Qwest estimates the project will require about 160 miles of copper and coaxial cable in and around the Pepsi Center, and more than a dozen miles of fiber-optic. Xcel Energy is donating the extra transformers needed to electrify the thousands of computers, cameras, microphones. Several other high-tech firms are donating goods and services. Many of the 95 suites will be stripped of their furnishings," and restocked and furnished for the wise men on TV. Now, the Pepsi Center has its own lighting. Are you thinking carbon footprint here? Good. Good. (interruption) Well, Qwest, yeah, they donate to the Republicans, too. It goes back and forth. Snerdley, don't tell me you're shocked that corporate entities would pay protection racket money to either party.

Anyway, "And though the Pepsi Center has its own lighting -- good enough for professional sports and top-name entertainment acts -- the Democrats will bring in their own. They will bring so many lights and speakers -- as many as 300,000 pounds' worth -- the ceiling will have to be reinforced to hold them. 'It's kind of like a house party at your house that you're not hosting,' Jolette said. ... Leasing the Pepsi Center for the seven weeks of construction, the week of the convention and the remaining two weeks of reconstruction, means $6.5 million for Kroenke." Kroenke Arena Company owns the arena. Kroenke, by the way, is a Republican and he's in the Wal-Mart family, so the Democrats are paying Wal-Mart. I'm not kidding you. Kroenke's owner is Stan Kroenke, and he's allowed exclusive access to one of the skyboxes for his own use even though he's a staunch Republican. He's married to Sam Walton's brother's daughter, and they live, I think, in Columbia, Missouri. Mega bucks. So the Democrats are paying this guy $6.5 million for all of this stuff. Now, here's the point. What is the carbon footprint of this?