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How much is a gigawatt?
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John Cook
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Nov. 7, 2025, 2:10 p.m.
data centers
gigawatt
Power Consumption
Nuclear Energy
Summary
This blog post discusses the significance of gigawatt data centers, highlighting notable examples like Switch's Citadel Campus and OpenAI's Stargate. It touches on the power consumption of data centers in relation to nuclear energy production.
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