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The campus would include five buildings, each with a power capacity of about 76 megawatts.
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Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
Regulators last December approved an unprecedented expansion of Georgia Power’s grid, allowing the electric company to add 10,000 megawatts — roughly 10 nuclear reactors — of mostly gas-burning power plants as well as solar and batteries in five years.
—Drew Kann, AJC.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Approval of those two would increase the total new generation to 3,800 megawatts to 4,100 megawatts.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Khaite had another megawatt show, this time under a towering light installation designed by Cate’s husband Griffin Frazen.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
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Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
Regulators last December approved an unprecedented expansion of Georgia Power’s grid, allowing the electric company to add 10,000 megawatts — roughly 10 nuclear reactors — of mostly gas-burning power plants as well as solar and batteries in five years.
—Drew Kann, AJC.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Approval of those two would increase the total new generation to 3,800 megawatts to 4,100 megawatts.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Khaite had another megawatt show, this time under a towering light installation designed by Cate’s husband Griffin Frazen.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
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megawatt
noun
mega·watt
ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät 
: one million watts
—abbreviation MW
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