How to pronounce“gigawatt”in English
side of the line but we'd have a bank of telescopes with lasers there'd be like a
gigawatt power and these lasers would momentarily shine upwards and accelerate they'd hit these sails
they'd be like a power source for the sail and would accelerate the sails to travel at about a 20th the speed of light
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Definitions of “gigawatt”
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.)
“Holonyms: TW, terawatt < PW, petawatt”
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”