GW
gigawatt; gigawatts.
GW
American
Or
Gw
gw
British
abbreviation
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Elon Musk's SpaceX, which now owns his AI subsidiary SpaceXAI, has 1 GW of capacity at its Colossus data centers across Tennessee and Mississippi.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Utilizing proprietary inference simulators and coding benchmarks, SemiAnalysis arrives at $100 billion per GW of annual recurring revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
It said the amount of electricity capacity being requested by projects seeking to connect to the grid had risen from 41 GW to 125 GW in the past year, reflecting a sharp increase in demand.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Under its generation plan, Tenaga aims to add 11.8 GW of new capacity by 2033, helping offset 6.6 GW of capacity scheduled for retirement while meeting rising electricity demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
We run down Broadway all the way to 170th Street, then take a detour to J. Hood Wright Park to look at the GW Bridge on the first landing.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
For example, gwesht is considered an unlikely word of English, because the sequences gw and sht are found in few words of English.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
“Will take gw bridge to work,” Mr. Wildstein texted back.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2014
One or two of our names beginning with gw, as Gwilliams, Gwatkin, and perhaps Gwalter, are probably due to the Welsh, of which this prefix is also a characteristic.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
Ma, may, that, are sometimes followed by verbs in the third state, and sometimes by a variant, g becoming h, and gw becoming wh.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
Initial v gives f in Goidelic in the course of the 7th century, whereas in Brythonic it appears as gu, gw, cf.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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