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gigawatt

/ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/

gigawatt 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.).

Noun

gigawatt (plural gigawatts)

  1. 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
  2. (metonymically) 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
    • “We’re gonna need stadiums full of electricians, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers, HVAC technicians,” Dwarkesh Patel and Romeo Dean, AI-industry analysts, wrote recently. Large-scale data-center build-outs may already be reshaping America’s energy systems. OpenAI has announced that it intends...2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens. The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025

gigawatt meaning in Thai

gigawatt in Thai

109 watts
กิกะวัตต์, จิกะวัตต์

Examples of gigawatt in a sentence

  • 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.
  • In a famous movie about time travel, the mad scientist tells the teenage hero that the time machine requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate.
  • Overall, the EU is on track to add 64.2 gigawatts of new capacity, according to the industry group.2025 July 24, Will Mathis, “Europe's Solar Power Growth Set to Dip for First Time Since 2016”, in BloombergNEF, archived from the original...

Forms of gigawatt

pluralgigawatts
alternative formgiga-watt
alternative alternative pronunciation-spellingjigawatt

Origin of gigawatt

From giga- + watt.

Words formed from gigawatt

Phrases with gigawatt

Questions about gigawatt

What does gigawatt mean?
Gigawatt means 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.).
What is gigawatt in Thai?
Gigawatt in Thai is กิกะวัตต์, จิกะวัตต์. See Gigawatt meaning in Thai.
How do you use gigawatt in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is gigawatt?
Gigawatt is a noun.
How do you pronounce gigawatt?
Gigawatt is pronounced /ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/.
What is the plural of gigawatt?
The plural of gigawatt is gigawatts.

Words near gigawatt in the dictionary

  1. gigatons
  2. gigatrend
  3. gigatrends
  4. gigavolt
  5. gigavolts
  6. gigawatt
  7. gigawatt hour
  8. gigawatt hours
  9. gigawatt year
  10. gigawatt years
  11. gigawatt-hour

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