How to Use gigawatt in a Sentence

gigawatt

noun
  • The Size of the Project How much is six gigawatts?
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Of that total, about 12 gigawatts is in Texas.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • Of that total, about 12 gigawatts is in Texas.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • Of that total, about 12 gigawatts are in Texas.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • For context, a terawatt is a thousand times bigger than a gigawatt.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • In the first half of this year alone, China added 52 new gigawatts of coal power.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That deal is meant to add 10 gigawatts of capacity.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The two projects planned for off Maryland’s coast so far only account for about 2 gigawatts.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Six gigawatts is equivalent to six large nuclear plants.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Avantus has built three gigawatts of solar and storage across the desert Southwest.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The company wants to raise that number to four gigawatts by 2030.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Barakah will supply 6 gigawatts of low-carbon electricity in the next few years.
    — Yousef Al Otaiba, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Last month, Meta struck a deal to deploy 6 gigawatts worth of gear from AMD.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • At $50 billion per gigawatt, that’ll likely cost trillions.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • At $50 billion per gigawatt, that’ll likely cost trillions.
    — Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • No one knows if Altman’s 250-gigawatt plan will prove to be brilliant or folly.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • San Jose’s current energy load is 1 gigawatt.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • To give you an idea of how much power these data centers take, a gigawatt is 1 million KW.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In May, its solar power reached 1,000 gigawatts.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Span hopes to eventually scale the network to more than one gigawatt of capacity.
    — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
  • The fund has so far failed to develop the 10 gigawatts of power it was intended to add to the Texas grid.
    — Saul Elbein, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Its gas turbines are sold out through 2028 with a backlog that stood at 55 gigawatts in June.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
  • An initial order of 1 gigawatt will begin delivery in the second half of next year, Tan said.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
  • Mr Schmitz assumes most of the three gigawatts the government plans to phase out by 2023 will come from these mines.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • For perspective, 160 gigawatts is twice as large as the state’s current energy use.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • Google Cloud will provide 5 gigawatts of compute capacity over five years.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • China is on track to reach a goal of installing 1,200 gigawatts of renewables five years ahead of schedule.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The company has acquired a third building as part of plans to ramp up training capacity to nearly two gigawatts.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • By the end of last year, companies were expanding to gigawatt-scale data center campuses.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2025
  • This includes 60 gigawatts from data centers based on forecasts from the utilities.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025

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