gigawatt
nounEtymology
From giga- + watt.
Definitions
One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as…
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
- Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt
- In the 2020s, the race for AI data centers has Big Tech searching for ways to add multiple gigawatts of additional grid capacity to a regional power grid.
The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can…
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
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gigawatt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA