gigawatt

[电] 十万万瓦

发音

/ˈɡɪɡəˌwɒt/
/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəˌwɒt/

词形变化

gigawatts 复数 gigawatts

别名

giga-watt jigawatt

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One thousand million (10⁹) watts, an amount of power large enough to power such things as a midsize town or several small ones. (Consuming 1 gigawatt during a duration of 1 hour consumes 1 gigawatt-hour of energy.)

    吉瓦

    Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt

    Meronyms: mW, milliwatt < W, watt < kW, kilowatt < MW, megawatt

    In the 2020s, the race for AI data centers has Big Tech searching for ways to add multiple gigawatts of additional grid capacity to a regional power grid.

    In a famous movie about time travel, the mad scientist tells the teenage hero that the time machine requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate.

  2. 2.

    The amount of data center capacity or amount of compute that this amount of power can provide under the current technological state of the art (PUE, clock speed, etc).

    a gigawatt of compute

相关短语

gigawatt hour gigawatt hours gigawatt year gigawatt years

词源

From giga- + watt.

来源：wiktionary