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Practice the English pronunciation of gigawatt with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
The Economic Opportunity Hidden in the Climate Transitionwill influence things like the number of inverters you need per gigawatt.
Definition summary
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.)

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How to pronounce gigawatt

The Economic Opportunity Hidden in the Climate Transition

will influence things like the number of inverters you need per gigawatt.

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A Deep Dive Into “gigawatt

Meaning

  • [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.)
  • (metonymic) 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). [mid-2020s]

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