Megawatt (MW) and Gigawatt (GW)
A megawatt is one million watts of power; a gigawatt is one billion. For scale, ~1 GW serves roughly 750,000 typical US homes. Meta Hyperion is publicly projected at up to 5 GW; Hut 8's anchor lease at River Bend is 245 MW.
Plain-English definition
Units of power — 1 GW = 1,000 MW. Louisiana AI projects are now sized in MW (single campus) and GW (multi-site portfolios).
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