The stage’s massive overhead steel structure, known as ‘The Claw’, is 164 feet tall and can hold up to 200 tons beneath it.
The cylindrical video screen is made up of 500,000 pixels, 320,000 fasteners, 30,000 cables and 150,000 machined pieces, weighs around 54 tons and has the same square footage as two doubles tennis courts.
Overheads per day, U2’s tour manager Paul McGuinness told Billboard magazine, are around $750,000 to keep the crew on payroll and rent the 200 trucks required to transport the stages, merchandise, catering etc.
