gigawatt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.)
The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).

/ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/ /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/

gigawatt gigawatts giga-watt jigawatt

From giga- + watt.

mul:GW

gigawatt-hour gigawatt-year

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