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gigawatt
- /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/
- /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/
noun gigawatts · giga-watt · jigawatt
- 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.) Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt
- 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). a gigawatt of compute
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Talk about this word "gigawatt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gigawatt. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gigawatt. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gigawatt "gigawatt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gigawatt.
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@misc{gigawatt_2026,
title = {gigawatt},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gigawatt},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
