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gigawatts

gigawatts is the plural of gigawatt.

Meaning of gigawatt

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
  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

Questions about gigawatts

What is gigawatts the plural of?
Gigawatts is the plural of gigawatt.

Words near gigawatts in the dictionary

  1. gigawatt years
  2. gigawatt-hour
  3. gigawatt-hours
  4. gigawatt-year
  5. gigawatt-years
  6. gigawatts
  7. gigaword
  8. gigawords
  9. gigaxonin
  10. gigayacht
  11. gigayachts

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