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

Meta is building its first large Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt facility in Alberta's Sturgeon County, at a cost of around $9 billion and a two-to-three-year construction timeline. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026

The initiative intends to install more than 3 gigawatts (GW) of electrical capacity by 2035, focusing primarily on data centers, cloud infrastructure facilities, and industrial manufacturing plants. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

China alone had 59 gigawatts of reactors under construction last year, enough to power around 50 million homes, and is on track to surpass the US as the world’s biggest nuclear nation by 2030. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 9 July 2026

By the end of the decade, it's estimated that data centers will draw 35 gigawatts. — Junaid Ali, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1962, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gigawatt

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