gigawatt
One thousand million watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a…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.)
Meaning
2 sensesOne 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
Gigawatt
гигава́ттgigavátt
(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