gigawatt

[gig-uh-wot, jig-]

noun

1. one billion watts. GW, Gw

Word History and Origins

Origin of gigawatt¹

First recorded in 1960–65; giga- + watt

Example Sentences

Last month, Anthropic announced that starting next year it would spend tens of billions of dollars to buy up to one million Google TPUs—enough to supply roughly 1 gigawatt of computing capacity—to power more AI research and help Anthropic serve rising customer demand for its enterprise AI tools.

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Anthropic has also committed to purchase $30 billion worth of compute capacity and contract up to one gigawatt of additional capacity from Microsoft as it scales Claude on Azures platform.

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A gigawatt is roughly the capacity of a large nuclear reactor.

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G42 is currently building a data center in the UAE with a capacity of one gigawatt for generative-AI specialist OpenAI, in partnership with Oracle, Cisco, Nvidia, and SoftBank.

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AMD, Cisco and Humain are working together to deploy 1 gigawatt of data centers, a figure twice as big as what xAI is targeting.

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