gigawatt

noun

giga·​watt ˈji-gə-ˌwät  ˈgi- 

: a unit of power equal to one billion watts

Examples of gigawatt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hyperscalers are building massive AI clusters, adding several gigawatts of capacity annually - power efficiency and the speed of deployments are two paramount metrics essential to sustaining this rate of expansion. —CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026

The company secured significant contracts, including a 10-gigawatt deal with OpenAI announced in October 2025, positioning it as a key supplier of custom AI accelerators to hyperscalers. —Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026

Public data indicates that a sustained power load of 1 gigawatt exceeds San Francisco’s peak electricity demand, comparable to the output of a large power plant or the energy use of a major industrial hub. —Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026

The company is investing $1 billion in the state of Texas and in domestic manufacturing, including G1 Dallas and its forthcoming G2_Austin, a 5-gigawatt solar cell manufacturing facility being constructed in Rockdale. —Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1962, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gigawatt

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